Urban Cowboys

I was searching for a thread here at Archiseek dealing with the urban cowboy phenomenon, which took the centre stage in debates so frequently in the past, I think, with the popularity of movies such as ‘Into the West’ and the Roddy Doyle stuff, ‘The Committments’, etc. I did find this particular old thread on the use of land, and means of inhabitation, in Dublin in the 21C…. about making gardens into car parks.

https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=2635

I am posting these couple of shots by Guy Le Querrec, documenting the modern state of the Big Foot tribe of native American Indians. The re-inactment event happened in 1990, exactly 100 years after the slaughter of Indians at Wounded Knee. It describes I think, a lot of brutality of the 19th century in general. But it is interesting too in the context of areas like Tallaght, made not too long ago here in Ireland – if you build plains, are you surprised when cowboys come. Now, I guess you could extend that statement to say, that having made plains we, are now building railroads across those plains, in order to try and ‘tame them’,… and I guess, try and make the natives ‘give up their horses’ too. 🙂

LUAS breaking even:

https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=4060

Brian O’ Hanlon.

Wounded Knee Re-inactment:

13th day of the journey a 26 miles ride from Red Water Creek to Red Owl Springs in Pine Ridge reservation. Arrival at the Red Owl Springs campsite. Thursday 27th December, 1990. Around 4.00pm. One hundred years after the Massacre at Wounded Knee, Sioux Lakota Indians trace the route of Chief Big Foot and their ancestors as they fled their reservation after the killing of Chief Sitting Bull by the U.S. Cavalry. The memorial ride, “Si Tanka Wokiksuye,” commemorates the Indians’ journey in search of safety that ultimately ended in their slaughter at Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890. Chief Big Foot, 25 U.S. soldiers, and more than 250 Lakota men, women, and children were killed in the attack. The Massacre at Wounded Knee was the last of the American Indian wars.