A Revitalization Movement In The Generation Red Nation

An upside down American flag is a sign of distress, one of which was shown in on the Lakota reservation in the documentary “Generation Red Nation”, marking a need for help which has not been given beneficially to Native Americans, especially to those living on reservations. Throughout their history, the Euro-government explicitly broke promises and/or remained silent on ongoing events, even when they reached out through the correct channels. After tragic events tore apart Indian culture of various tribes, they found ways in which to connect in things such as Pan-Indianism and to unite with their history that some had lost through various techniques, such as disease, poverty, and bills passed in favor of forced assimilation. The Ghost Dance

305)” The Ghost Dance serves in this purpose in Native American history to replenish the culture that had been wiped from a generation, by ensuing things such as The Allotment Act or more commonly known as the Dawes Act, forced Native Americans like the title of the documentary “In The White Man’s Image. The revitalization of Indigenous culture was what made The Ghost Dance such a prominent part of Native American history, its own religious structure held components of various Native American and Christian beliefs. Stripping away everything that had to with any form of Native American culture in the hope to make them like the white man. The phrase “Kill the Indian Save the Man” was a popular allotment towards the attitude of this time period. Taking away every sense of being in order to make them anew did no good whatsoever, even after all the outside symbols of themselves, especially their name, which to many Native Americans was a sacred part of themselves as part of their being were taken away.

As it is known in the history of Native Americans, the sad event of Wounded Knee, where many women and children were innocently shot and killed after the fall of Sitting Bull, the Ghost Dance had