Interesting POV article.
I would add our local ground zero here, too. It was the last Indian massacre in the U.S where some white guys got killed, too.
There was a bunch of Paiutes in Idaho that didn't get what was promised to them if they settled down, such as food, so they went on the move in the winter of 1910 to find some food.
In the area of High Rock Canyon, Nevada, which is still as remote today as it was then, the group killed a few range cattle to fend off starvation, as it was the dead of winter and they had nothing to eat.
A ranch foreman, and three Basque shepherds, went out to investigate. When they got there, it was clear what had happened, and the white men had no sense of humor about it. But they never lived to tell about it, because all four of them were killed by Shoshone Mike's band of feral people who were fighting for survival.
When word got back to town, a posse formed. They all had repeating rifles, whereas Shoshone Mike's band had two muskets and a cap and ball pistol between the whole group. In the ensuing "battle" in early 1911, the whites slaughtered the whole camp of Paiutes except for a 14 year old girl and her baby. They also spared one other infant-- apparently it was missed in the confusion.
The family names of the dead white men are well known here... for instance, i worked with the grandson of one them, a Laxague. It is still personal at some levels. The other bands of Paiutes at the Ft. Bidwell reservation remember, too.
After 99 years, it is still a ground zero, and many hatchets remain unburied. they just keep them behind their backs, just in case. The actual "battlefield" is an hour's drive out in the desert... it is marked by an information board, and lots of toilet paper, as there is no out house within an hour's drive.
But time alone has not made the ground zero of The High Rock Canyon Massacre go into the still night.
And I don't think New York's ground zero is going to be a place for the singing of cumbaya between the people who felt loss and the idea that somehow islam is to blame. Even though we know rationally that it was a few extremists, there is still enough sub-irrigated emotion there that even many tolerant people still burl up about it at times, some more than others.
And our freedom of religion ideals are getting kicked in the nuts by people who really think islam itself poses a threat to us. I think the islamics need to reach out a bit, too, to the christians and normal people to show that they are part of our culture, too.
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