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Buddy Lamont was an Oglala Lakota man who was shot and killed during the Occupation of Wounded Knee. An ex-marine, he “received his honorable discharge from the Marine Corps just about the time a government bullet killed him.” The fact that his work with the Marine Corps didn’t stop the U.S. government from killing him speaks to how cooperating with one’s oppressors may not save one from persecution later.
Buddy Lamont Quotes in Lakota Woman
The Lakota Woman quotes below are all either spoken by Buddy Lamont or refer to Buddy Lamont . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 16
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I pierced too, together with many other women […] I did not feel any pain because I was in the power. I was looking into the clouds, into the sun. Brightness filled my mind […] In the almost unbearable brightness, in the clouds, I saw people. I could see those who had died. I could see Pedro Bissonette […] Buddy Lamont […] I saw the face of my friend Annie Mae Aquash, smiling at me. I could hear the spirits speaking to me through the eagle-bone whistles […] I felt nothing and, at the same time, everything. It was at that moment that I, a white-educated half-blood, became wholly Indian. I experienced a great rush of happiness.
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Buddy Lamont Quotes in Lakota Woman
The Lakota Woman quotes below are all either spoken by Buddy Lamont or refer to Buddy Lamont . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 16
Quotes
I pierced too, together with many other women […] I did not feel any pain because I was in the power. I was looking into the clouds, into the sun. Brightness filled my mind […] In the almost unbearable brightness, in the clouds, I saw people. I could see those who had died. I could see Pedro Bissonette […] Buddy Lamont […] I saw the face of my friend Annie Mae Aquash, smiling at me. I could hear the spirits speaking to me through the eagle-bone whistles […] I felt nothing and, at the same time, everything. It was at that moment that I, a white-educated half-blood, became wholly Indian. I experienced a great rush of happiness.
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