Wounded Knee Genocide

Zack Siemsen Merri Ferles HIS 202 02-12-13 Native American Genocide The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide states that according to Article 2. “Genocide, deems any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Such as killing members of a group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, inflicting the group member lives to cause destruction, imposing measures intended to prevent birth, and forcibly

amount of importance on American achievement. As a result, people are not grasping the full image of historic events and are skewed in their ways of thinking due to a biased mindset. In the article “American Indian Genocide Museum: The Confederate Flag, Buffalo Soldiers at Wounded Knee and Clarifying History”, by Steve Melendez, a recent controversy is discussed. According to Melendez, in 2011 Jerry Patterson, a Land Commissioner, tried to get both a confederate flag license plate and a Buffalo soldier

for herself but also for her own people and met her husband Leonard Crow Dog. As an AIM person and Indian, she participates in many Indian activities such as BIA take over, the siege at Wounded Knee, and many peyote meetings. She fights against dictator at Pine Ridge, which leads her and AIM people to Wounded Knee where they stayed and fought for 71days. With very limited food and weapon, they lasted 71 days with their spiritual strength. Peyote meetings and Ghost dance are good examples that show

still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes young.” These are the words of Black Elk, the medicine man of the Oglala Lakota, the tribe that was attacked by Wounded Knee Creek. The massacre included the killing of civilians, including women and children, by the Seventh Cavalry Regiment. Leading up to the massacre, the Lakota’s land had continually been seized by the United States government. They had already been

The Ghost Dance All Indians must dance, everywhere, keep on dancing. Pretty soon in next spring Great Spirit come. He bring back all game of every kind…all dead Indians come back and live again. They all be strong just like young men, be young again. Old blind Indian see again and get young and have fine time. When Great Spirit comes this way, than all the Indians go to mountains, high up away from whites. Whites can't hurt Indians then. Then while Indians way up high, big flood like water and

was said to have this mystical vision since he was young. As a tribal history, it shows the change of the Sioux nation from pre-reservation to reservation culture, including their partaking in the ghost dance, the Battle of Little Big Horn, and Wounded Knee. Black Elk Speaks propositions testament to the price in human grief that the Sioux had to pay for the United States expanding westward. It grieves his cultural misplacement and the age of being innocent and being free. Black lk Speaks is framed

not until 1962 that Native Americans could vote without discrimination. The Native Americans continuously fight for a voice in the U.S. government. The extreme inconsideration of the people at Wounded Knee ended with a bloody massacre. One-hundred and fifty-three Native American were killed at Wounded Knee Creek as a result of the U.S. government trying to suppress the religious practice of Ghost Dance (Fiero). At Standing Rock today, the Sioux “nations are fighting against the 1,172-mile Dakota

In the articles, “A Day to Remember: December 29, 1890” and “Black Elk Remembers the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890” they both have different interpretations of the events that took place at the Wounded Knee Massacre and how they happened. Major General Nelson A. Miles was a Civil War veteran and Indian fighter; he dispatched troops to find and stop an Indian Sioux tribe leader and approximately 350 others from making their way to the Standing Rock Reservation where other Indians where practicing

Arrow to The Knee Toni Dearman Mrs. Terry Westling English III 13 October 2017  Outline Thesis Statement: The Battle of Wounded Knee, a horrific battle, ended The Ghost Dance Wars ,and brought up A.I.M which helped the Sioux tribes gain their rights. Introduction I. The Sioux Indians and Rituals Sioux Indians Ghost Dance Rituals II. The Causes of The Ghost Dance War and Wounded Knee Battle Ghost Dance Wars The Causing of Wounded Knee III. During and The Effects of Wounded Knee Battle During

Native American Ritual Dancing “It has often been said that the North American Indians ‘dance out’ their religions” (Vecsey 51). There were two very important dances for the Sioux tribe, the Sun Dance and the Ghost Dance. Both dances show the nature of Native American spirituality. The Ghost Dance and the Sun Dance were two very different dances, however both promote a sense of community. “The Sun Dance was the most spectacular and important religious ceremony of the Plains