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Dusty Johnson: Let us not use polite phrases to ignore the reality: this was no battle, this was a massacre.

On the recordJune 6, 2023
Let us not use polite phrases to ignore the reality: this was no battle, this was a massacre.
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Dusty Johnson
Republican · South Dakota

Editor's note · Context

Johnson emphasizes the severity of the Wounded Knee incident as a massacre.

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