I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. - Stephen Vincent Benet

I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

– Stephen Vincent Benet

Final lines of American Names poem. Wounded Knee was South Dakota reservation village where at least 150 Lakota men, women and children were massacred by U.S Army in last major engagement of Indian Wars. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown.