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June 25/26, 1876. On a bluff above the Little
Bighorn River East of what
is now Crow Agency, a battle was fought between
members of the US 7th
Cavalry under General George Custer and a large
contingent of Northern Plains Indians
(Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho).
Custer and all his men were killed by
superior Indian forces. We
are today numbed by photographs of men and women,
young and old, civilian
and military, terrorist and peacekeeper, from every
religious and ethnic group, lying dead or wounded
with their garments
partially or totally ripped from their bodies.
Before being nailed to the
cross, Jesus was stripped of his garments by the
same dark forces of greed,
hatred, fear, violence and oppression operative
today. |
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