Read the excerpt from "last rites of the indian dead." some of my own cheyenne relatives' skulls are in the smithsonian institut
ion today, along with those of at least 4,500 other indian people who were violated in the| 1800s by the u.s. army for an "indian crania study." it wasn't enough that thesel unarmed cheyenne people were mowed down by the cavalry at the infamous sand] creek massacre; many were decapitated and their heads shipped te washington as freight. why does harjo use the word violated, instead of words like harmed or disturbea?
