The massacre at Wounded Knee occurred on December 29, 1890, on the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. It was an unfair, unlawful event that
happened between the American Indians and the United States of America’s government.
There were many factors that led up to this discriminating incidence. More than three hundred
Indians were killed or greatly injured during this battle. This battle was the last between the
American Indians and the government, and therefore, it changed the history that we know
The quarrel between the Sioux Indians and the United States government had been
going on for a while before the actual clash. On December 15, 1890, the famous medicine man
named “Sitting Bull” was shot and killed while the soldiers were trying to arrest him. He was
mistakenly believed to be a Ghost Dancer, and they killed him. The 7th
by Colonel James W. Forsyth. An argument started with a deaf Sioux named Black Coyote. The
United States wanted his rifle. He refused and was killed by the army men. The Sioux Indians
got very angry and started shooting. They fought for two hours, but eventually fell short of
ammunition. Both sides went into the battle with 900 rounds of ammunition.
The Ghost Dance movement was a religious program that involved the Native
Americans. Many Indians thought that if they practiced the Ghost Dance and stopped practicing
the ways of white men, the gods would create a new world and would extinguish all non-
Indians. The Ghost Dance involved men and women who could chant, pray, and dance. The
Ghost Dance also believed that the Indians had been set to live on reservations because they
“angered the gods” by not following in their traditional customs.
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On December 29, 1890, the army decided to take away all of the Sioux weapons because they weren’t sure if they could trust those indians. Some people think a deaf man did this, but one man shot his gun, while the tribe was surrendering. Studies think that he didn’t understand the Chiefs surrender. The army then opened fire at the Sioux. There was over 300 indians that died, and one of them was their chief named Bigfoot. This is an example of how we didn’t treat Native Americans fairly, because if it was a deaf man then we probably should of talked it out before we killed all those innocent
The United States government initially celebrated the Battle at Wounded Knee as the final conflict between Native Americans and the United States military - after which the western frontier was considered safe for the incoming settlers. Over 20 medals were awarded to the soldiers for their valor on the battlefield. However, the understanding has changed regarding what actually took place at Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890. The Hollywood version of the Battle of Wounded Knee accurately presents the case that the Battle at Wounded Knee was actually a massacre of the Sioux - the culminating act of betrayal and aggression carried out by the United States military,
The Sioux and other Native Americans have always been treated poorly by some people. They had to deal with the same racism that the African Americans were dealing with in the South. No one was fighting a war for the Sioux though. The truth is white supremacy runs amuck everywhere and wreaks havoc on society. Racism separated the Sioux from the settlers, but the tipping point was something else entirely. The US made a binding contract, a promise, to pay the Sioux a certain amount of Go...
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Have you ever heard the term, “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid?” or “You have drank the Kool-Aid.”? Well, ”Drinking the Kool-Aid” means you have done something that others have told you to do or did yourself. This saying comes from the cult society led by Reverend Jim Jones, named Jonestown. Jonestown was a small community in the jungle of Guyana, South America. After getting word of people coming to investigate the society, Jones had committed a mass suicide by poisoning Kool-Aid and giving it to the people of Jonestown.
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His book is insightful, thoroughly-researched, and well-written. He delved deeply into the post-massacre reports produced by Congress and the U.S. Army, as well as the verbatim testimony recorded by the Freedmen 's Bureau from over 200 eye-witnesses. The first half of the book deals well with the complicated social, economic, and political background leading up to the initial clash on the Bayou Bridge. The book 's second half explores the violence in chronological detail and reviews the aftermath with an eye toward the political repercussions. Stephen Ash 's book is a short read, only 196 pages of text, followed by 79 pages of notes, bibliography and index. I recommend A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War to Civil War enthusiasts or any reader interested in a long-range perspective on the racial cauldron that is American history. 2016 marks the sesquicentennial of the Memphis pogrom. And Karr was
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Utley used many different sources for to defend his ideas including Walter S. Campbell Collection at the University of Oklahoma Library in Norman. The book starts off allowing the reader to understand who Sitting Bull truly is. It is not fully known what year Sitting Bull was born, but he was born with a different name than Sitting Bull. When Sitting Bull was first born his name was “Jumping Badger” (5). The importance of the relationships between the different tribes is a major theme throughout the book. Under the name the Sioux, which the US has put many different tribes into, there are many that have rivals and alliances. The tribes that included under the name Sioux are: Lakota/Teton, Oglala, San Ar, Hunkpapa, Blackfeet, Two Kettles, Plant Beside the Stream, Yakton/Tanktonai, West Dakotas, and Santee/East Dakotas.
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