Wounded Knee Massacre

Sioux Indians at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. According to eyewitness to history, Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890, the Cavalry’s mission was to arrest the Miniconjou Lakota’s chief, Big Foot, and disarm his warriors, because of their involvement in the Ghost Dance Movement. The conflict quickly arose, as a result of the tension that had been building up between the two sides for the past few months. During a search for weapons among the Sioux people, one shot was fired, which quickly lead to a violent outburst between the U.S. Army and the Sioux. The battle, which was typically one-sided due to the dominance of the Seventh Cavalry, resulted in…

One of the most regretful and saddest battles in american and indian history is the Wounded knee massacre, Wounded Knee was the last battle that killed the last indian tribe. On the morning of December 29,1890, on wounded knee creek near the Pine Ridge agency, the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S Army opened fire on the encampment of a band of miniconjou and sioux indians. The beginning of this battle started when the american military forced the indians to live like and live with white men, the…

Wounded knee is located on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. South Dakota is home to the Sioux tribe and many of its counterparts including the Oglala, Rosebud, and the Yankton Sioux tribes. Wounded Knee, named after a creek on the reservation, was remembered as a place of much resentment, betrayal, of “the white man’s lies and promises,” and of lost hope because of the massacre that took place there in 1890. Eighty-three years later this same site would host a more controversial…

For instance, the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan a white-supremacist organization opposed to the black civil right and encouraged violence against the African American such as killing, raping, and murder. As for the Native American, during the Battle of Wounded Knee they suffered a huge massacre plus the enemy did not distinguish between civilian and armed people resulting into many deaths of children and mothers for example, a 4-month-old Lakota survived because her mother lay down on her during…

the U.S. was rapidly growing. The only thing standing in their way of further expansion were the Native American tribes living in the area. The U.S. government felt the American Indians interfered with progress and should be pushed aside. The Plains Indians soon were dominated by the Anglo Americans. Their land had been taken away from them, and they were pushes in to reservations with force from the white settlers. There were some Natives who fiercely rejected the reservation system. The Native…

back but we couldn't do anything to stop them after they were in before we knew it. Sitting Bull had died a few weeks before the incident but that wasn’t gonna stop the dance. The massacre of Wounded Knee, also so called “The Ghost Dance” War happened because the U.S.felt threatened of all of these indians doing something that they didn’t understand or know what it melt. They can’t be blamed because how would they…

Native Americans also had hardships forced upon them by the government. The 1887 Dawes Act redistributed their tribal lands, and sold a lot of it to whites. The Natives were told to assimilate to “civilized” ways and farm so that they could become American citizens. Within fifty years, tribal land had been cut down from 138 million to eighty-six million acres. When some natives tried to find comfort in the Ghost Dance, this scared troops and caused them to attack their reservation. They…

by the rapidly growing and somewhat fanatic movement. Black Elk also admits that he believes this was the time when he went wrong in his attempt to save his people. In his opinion, he began focusing too much on the visions of the Ghost Dances, instead of following his original great vision. At the same time, tragedy returns to the holy man’s life after a brief stint of hope. A friendly police officer warns Black Elk that others will come to arrest him, and so once again he is forced to flee from…

Walt Whitman wrote, “Thou of sunny, flowing hair, in battle, I erewhile saw, with erect head, pressing ever in front, bearing a bright sword in thy hand, Now ending well the splendid fever of thy deeds, (I bring no dirge for it or thee—I bring a glad, triumphal sonnet;),” (1876). These are the views of the battle that are often remembered, dramatized glorifications of what was intended to be one of the largest massacres of Native Americans. We see a very different view of the battle through the…

Leonard Peltier is an imprisoned Native American who lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. After an incident On February 27, 1973, members of the American Indian Movement, or AIM, together with a number of local and traditional Native Americans began their seventy-two-day occupation of Wounded Knee. Their goal was to protest injustices against their tribes, violations of the many treaties, and current abuses and repression against their people. The United States government responded with a…