4 AUGUST 1891--"The Truth about Wounded Knee"--RELIC OF INDIAN BUTCHERY. THE SIGN OF THE RED CROSS IS NOT RECOGNIZED BY THE RED WARRIORS.

 This is an article in the New York Herald for 4 August 1891. We are talking about Wounded Knee and the fight at White Clay Creek.

John Van R. Hoff, he post surgeon at Fort Riley, Kansas, had sent the War Department in DC "a battle marked relic of the late war with the Sioux in South Dakota. It is an ambulance guidon, which has upon its field of white the sign of the Red Cross."

Now, would you believe what those Sioux at Wounded Knee did? Would you believe that they did not respect the Geneva Convention?

"According to the terms of the Geneva Convention this cross, when properly displayed, is respected by all combatants in civilized warfare. There are more than a dozen holes in the guidon, made by shots from the Indians' weapons, and Major Hoff, in his letter accompanying it, expresses the opinion that the Geneva Convention cuts no figure in Indian warfare."

The more I work on Racial Encounters the more appalled I become.