Sand Creek Massacre Case Study

On the day of September 11, 1857, an emigrant party camped at Mountain Meadows was brutally killed by the Mormon militia aided by Indians. This essay examines two viewpoints regarding the massacre found in Sally Denton’s “American Massacre” and in “Massacre at Mountain Meadows” by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, and Glen M. Turley.

It held many struggles and disagreements, which lead to many retaliations, from both the Indians and the settlers. The Indians had been alliances with the white men until the massacre, which stated the settlers betrayal to all tribes.

President Harrison’s intended message in his “Report on Wounded Knee Massacre and the Decrease in Indian Land Acreage” is to ensure the people that the massacre was a self-defense act by the soldiers. He said that the natives were “naturally warlike and turbulent” which puts the blame on the massacre on the Natives. Modern American’s can learn a lot from the Wounded Knee Massacre. To Americans, the massacre represents the end of the Indian resistance. Although this massacre is usually not mentioned in history classes today is it defiantly something that should be remembered. American soldiers were violent towards the Indians. While men were trying to flee the American soldiers would shoot them in the back and let their bodies there to freeze.

“after hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee had been killed by the powerful Hotchkiss guns...the survivors were tracked down for miles around and summarily executed-because, and only because, the blood running in their veins was Indian...Women and children accounted for more than two-thirds of the Indian dead. “(Stannard

The majority of Captain Heald’s group were killed. Some women and children were even beheaded. The few who survived were held captive by the Native Americans for more than a year. This was the massacre known as the Fort Dearborn massacre (Hickey, 99).

The Unredeemed Captain is the factual telling of the Deerfield Massacre and the ways it effected the Williams family who lost their daughter as a captive to the Bear tribe of the Mohawk Native Americans. The book deeply explores religion and how it relates to the ideas of savagery and family through comparison of experiences in the lives of the Puritans and the lives of the Native American captors.

Approximately 200 people would die there, many disfigured by the soldiers. According to the Lone Wolf, a novel by Kevin Cahill, “When the smoke cleared, Colonel John M. Chivington’s troops returned to Denver, waving Indian scalps and body parts to an adoring crowd that hailed the conquering heroes as saviors of the territory”. The chiefs that were killed were, Standing-in-the-Water, Ochinee and War Bonnet, White Antelope, Tall Bear, Bear Robe, Little Robe, Spotted Crow, Big Man, Bear Man and Old Yellow Wolf. After this, the entire camp was burned. Many of the natives were left behind to be identified by their family members. Several men tried to stop the massacre, mainly a CPT. Silas, who on Apr 23, 1865 was found shot to death in Denver. According to the National Park Service, “The citizens of nearby Denver welcomed the troops when they returned as having helped to rid the Plains of hostile Indians, but Chivington’s actions were controversial almost

One of the worst cases of failed reporting of mental health checks was the Virginia Tech Massacre, in April 2007, where a Virginia Tech student named Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people and injured 17 others, then killed himself on the college campus in Blacksburg, Virginia (“Mental Health Reporting”). Cho bought a gun despite going through two background checks through licensed gun dealers and having a mental health history in the records that should have prevented him from receiving a gun. Although Virginia had some background check laws at the time, certain cases were masked from the system. But, this is not the only instance, in fact, there have been 102 mass shootings in 2017 alone, from January 1st-April 18 (“Mission.”). Though

On November 5, the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Devin Patrick Kelley shot at the church. The shooting killed at least 26 people, with many more wounded.

I wrote this paper on the Ludlow Massacre. This paper explores the unsafe work situations that the Ludlow Natives had to deal with. They went on strike to protect their lives. Guards planned to attack protesters and began the massacre. A foxhole was dug to protect women and children from flying bullets as the massacre embarked, embracing one another and praying for life fifteen were killed at the bottom of the fox hole by kerosene which was distributed by the guards . Overall 19 innocent lives were lost after the Colorado National Guard attacked their camp for fighting for what they believe in.

The Jonestown massacre is a great example of people being manipulated and brainwashed. The fact that people can be manipulated to leave the states and go in the middle of the jungle is crazy but they thought it was for the best. Jim Jones the cult leader didn’t lie completely, he would tell parts of the truth convincing them his way was right and he told them Jonestown would be Utopia. In my opinion I do believe it could happen again, if someone is convincing enough and good at speaking it’s easy to believe they are right and even follow him or her. If it’s possible for this to happen again how could it happen in todays world?

It was one night on february 8, 1968 that i was walking down the street and then i noticed that there was a protest going on down the street. It was at the moment that i heard gunshots so i took cover near the closest object and i poked my head out to see what was going on. I looked out to see protesters shooting and officers with their guns out. I heard fear in everyone's voice as they were running away screaming “help me” and “watch out”. I didn't know it was that serious till i heard gunshots and seen people running. When i new it was serious i started getting more scared of what would happen i thought to myself should i stay and hide or should i get up and run away. I decided to stay and watch so i could tell people what happen and to be a

As one begins to compare genocides and holocausts, it is hard to remain unbiased. Of Course there are dissimilarities, mostly semantic, between these two horrendous acts. Regardless, the fact is that both these words are used to explain the immense killings done with the objective of annihilating an entire race of people .Holocausts and Genocides are disgusting both in its drive and the scale of their destruction. Both should of never have happened.

On the infamous day of November 18, 1978, over 900 people died from ingesting cyanide-laced Kool-Aid/Flavor-Aid, gunshot wounds, or injections of the same cyanide-laced formula. The death toll totaled to 922 people; 85 survived on that day after running into the jungle as well as being away from the commune, or being on the airstrip/defection before the fact (Byrne, 2017). 1978 became a wall for religious movements to surpass if they wanted to be successful; the death and deception caused people to look at religious movements as revamps of the same situation, therefore shutting them down almost before they could even begin (Byrne, 2017). O’Shea told Rothenberg Gritz (2011) that Jonestown should be a “cautionary tale” for the world instead of the “American curiosity” that many people make it out to be.

On Monday, 30. February, Mark Charles gave a presentation on equality and racism and how white land owning man use their power to rule all over the world. Students and faculty who were at presentation showed dissatisfaction to Mark’s anger, passion and direction of his speech. Mark Charles is a speaker, writer, and consultant who was born in the Navajo Reservation. He is the son of an American woman of Dutch heritage and a Navajo man. His life is dedicated to understanding American culture, faith and differences among races. Charles seeks to understand American history in order to help solve problems that are devastate America. He is a member of many organizations which help Native American communities in their development. Charles also