{"id":1192319,"date":"2023-08-27T05:13:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T05:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=292168"},"modified":"2023-08-27T05:13:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T05:13:46","slug":"better-red-than-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/27\/better-red-than-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Red Than Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_292169\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-292169\" class=\"wp-image-292169 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/unnamed-2-680x287.jpg\" alt=\"A Scene from Jesse Short Bull &#38; Laura Tomaselli\u2019s LAKOTA NATION VS. UNITED STATES. Courtesy of IFC Films. An IFC Films release.\" width=\"680\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-292169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Scene from Jesse Short Bull &#38; Laura Tomaselli\u2019s LAKOTA NATION VS. UNITED STATES. Courtesy of IFC Films. An IFC Films release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whenever I think about the \u201cManifest Destiny\u201d genocide U.S. rulers wrought against this continent\u2019s original inhabitants \u2013 arguably the greatest land theft in human history \u2013 the sheer injustice of it all makes me feel like tearing my hair out, gnashing my teeth, slashing my flesh, rending my garments and howling at the moon. At a time when racist reactionaries suppress dissident histories, the new documentary <strong><em>Lakota Nation Vs. United States<\/em>, co-directed by <\/strong>Oglala Lakota Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli, bravely and poetically presents a version of America\u2019s story told from the Indigenous point of view. Indeed, <strong><em>Lakota\u2019s<\/em><\/strong> parts I and II \u2013 \u201cExtermination\u201d and \u201cAssimilation\u201d \u2013 could be titled: \u201cHow the West was Lost.\u201d \t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo read this article, log in <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/\">here<\/a> or subscribe <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/subscribe\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/members-area\/\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies.\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/27\/better-red-than-dead\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/27\/better-red-than-dead\/\">Better Red Than Dead<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/27\/better-red-than-dead\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Scene from Jesse Short Bull &#038; Laura Tomaselli\u2019s LAKOTA NATION VS. UNITED STATES. Courtesy of IFC Films. An IFC Films release.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I think about the \u201cManifest Destiny\u201d genocide U.S. rulers wrought against this continent\u2019s original inhabitan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,250,230],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}