Arrival - Douglas Spotted Eagle

Kin,

This song has long been associated with mourning for me. A mighty long time.

Mourning and the relearning of knowing when to let go has always been difficult lessons for me to learn. Sometimes I listen to the voice within my conscience, sometimes I don't. I know that I am having a go at this gloom that has me by the throat. Knowing is half the battle. You know?

Come the 29th of December, more mourning comes my way as it is the anniversary of the Massacre at Wounded Knee. This is an annual state of mourning for me to stop and pray. To remember and contemplate what it was that this U.S. Army did when it slaughtered and massacred Lakota Women, Children and Elders. With weapons of such mass destruction that the bullets so large, would travel through one victim and through another. These were defenseless victims. This was not an armed battle of war - this was total annihilation of our own people's.

Great Spirit!