by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
August 21, 2012
Image by Sonny W. via Flickr
The Hollowing Out of America, Up Close and Personal
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On the Pine Ridge Lakota reservation in South Dakota, where our book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt opens, and where the average male has a life expectancy of 48 years, the lowest in the western hemisphere outside of Haiti, those who endured the long night of oppression found solace in traditional sweat lodge rituals, the Lakota language and cosmology, and the powerful four-day Sun Dance which I attended, where dancers fast and make small flesh offerings.
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