ObituaryLaDonna Brave Bull AllardBlack snake, sacred waterLaDonna Brave Bull Allard, historian and campaigner for Native-American rights, died on April 10th, aged 64The first time they drove up to Whitestone Hill, in south North Dakota, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard had to ask her husband to stop.She could hear grief coming out of the ground, crying and screaming.She had to lay down food and water there, as well as prayer-ties of sweet willow-bark tobacco that could soothe and heal the spirits of the dead.Whitestone Hill in 1863 had seen a terrible massacre, when hundreds of men, women and children had been herded into a ravine and shot by the United States Army.They had been members of a large camp of tribes, mainly Sioux, who had been meeting to prepare for winter by hunting buffalo and arranging marriages.Among them was her great great grandmother Mary Big Mocassin, then nine years old, who felt the sudden heat of a bullet tear into her hip.She survived, but had shivered in a field for hours crying for her mother. Her voice, too, called from the place.
讣告拉多娜・“勇敢的公牛”・阿拉德黑蛇,圣水拉多娜・“勇敢的公牛”・阿拉德,历史学家、美国原住民权利活动家,于2021年4月10日去世,享年64岁拉多娜・“勇敢的公牛”・阿拉德跟丈夫第一次驱车前往北达科他州南部的白石山时,她忍不住让丈夫停车。她听到了这片土地上传来的悲鸣,时而呜咽、时而尖叫。她必须下车留下一些食物和饮水,以及可以抚慰和治愈亡灵的装着甜柳树皮烟草的祈祷束袋。1863年,白石山发生了一场惨绝人寰的大屠杀,数百名男女以及孩童被美军赶进峡谷后惨遭射杀。他们是一个大型多部落聚居营的成员,主要为苏族人(Sioux),他们为了筹备过冬相聚,捕猎水牛、安排婚嫁事宜。拉多娜的曾曾祖母玛丽・“大”・莫卡辛(Mary Big Mocassin)就是其中的一员,她当年才9岁。当时,莫卡辛突然感觉臀部被一颗子弹射穿。她侥幸活了下来,但也经历了非常惨痛的遭遇,母亲惨死,幼小的她在田地里恸哭了几个小时。她的声音回荡在那片土地上空。
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