It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.
We're bringing hope. I think that's all that we can do. And somebody was caring for them. There's a lot of people been down there that are bringing hope and we were just one of them.
An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.