Coming into Green Grass: Oomaka Tokatakiya, Future Generations Ride, to Wounded Knee
Photos by Ken Marchionno and the Future Generations Teen Photojournalism Project
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| The riders arrived in Green Grass today, where the community has prepared a huge turkey dinner for them. |
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Alex White Plume is Oglala Lakota and one of the founders of the Wounded Knee Bigfoot Memorial Ride (South Dakota), which was started in 1986. The nation needed a Wiping of the Tears ceremony after the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. The ride began because of the way our people were living; they needed change and a way that brought awareness to what happened to Bigfoot and his people at Wounded Knee. Between 1986-1990, the ride was a Wiping of the Tears ceremony for the Lakota nation. There were 19 riders on the very first ride in 1986 from Bridger, SD to Wounded Knee, SD. The ride was called the Future Generation Ride after 1990, when the Wiping of the Tears ceremony ended.
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