Wounded Knee Massacre

Wounded Knee was a terrible event in US history. It showed how the US government didn't understand the Native Americans and treated them badly and unfairly. Big Foot was the chief of a subtribe of the Lakota called Miniconjou. He was very old and had pneumonia. He was taking his tribe to the Pine Ridge Reservation in south-western South Dakota. Most of the women and children in Big Foot's tribe were family members of the warriors who had died in the Plains wars. The Indians had agreed to live

Wounded Knee Massacre: What components of conflict led to the Wounded Knee Massacre? The purpose of this paper is to analyze the conflicts that caused the Wounded Knee Massacre. On December 29,1890, at Wounded Knee Creek located southwest South Dakota is where a tragic incident occurred. Nearly half the victims killed were women and children. About 250 to 300 people lost their lives to a battle due to a religious dance, miscommunicated traditional culture, and religious conflict. The Indians

The Massacre at Wounded Knee First, and foremost, the battle between the white man and the Indian Nation is a poignant historical portrayal of what took place at the Wounded Knee Massacre. It was all set in motion in the “Moon When the Deer Shed Their Horns”, a Sioux moon of December. The Sioux were so distraught about the assassination of Sitting Bull; they could not muster an uprising. The Ghost Dance was their only hope to eradicate the white man. “There was no hope on earth

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

Introduction The massacre at Wounded Knee was the last action in a long and bloody war that pitted Native American Indians against U.S Military forces. For roughly 300 years the two sides had been in constant conflict across America in a battle for land, resources, and ultimately; freedom. This final massacre solidified the American hold on the west and closed the final chapter on a way of life that can never be brought back. Lakota Indians, having learned of the death of Sitting Bull started

The battle of wounded knee started in December 29,1890.When they arrived troops were on the pine ridge reservation in South Dakota to quiet the ghost dance disorder of 1890.After the Indian police killed chief sitting bull while trying to arrest him on December 15th on the standing rock his hunkpapa band of the Lakota tribe grew agitated and troop reinforcements arrived.When 200 of the Indians fled southward to Cheyenne river military officials feared a hunkpapa miniconjou coalition.There was about

Gabriel Adler Professor DiGiralamo History 1000 Spring 2015 Wounded Knee Massacre Historian Heather Cox Richardson, provides a comprehensive analysis of an attempt by the government to annihilate the native Indians. In her book Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre, she discusses the well-calculated assault by the Whites on the Plain Indians. Behind this move was not the manifestation of destiny but rather politics; politics almost wiped out the natives. To illustrate

Okay, so this article is a little chopped up and missing information, but with what I am given, and some personal knowledge, I can conclude that there was no “things got out of hand” at Wounded Knee. Even if there had been a situation where all of the male adult Sioux people had rebelled against the soldiers, there is no situation where the Sioux men would have willingly endangered that many women and children. In Native American culture it is the men’s job to protect the women and children. The

the Indians, Irish, Chinese, and Jews along with blacks. A course I know how African Americans were treated, but I didn’t realize how the Lakota Indians were just killed in cold blood at the Wounded Knee. That really brought a tear to my eye, especially knowing that women and kids were involved in the massacre. The language of the videos didn’t really bother me. Hearing the word “nigger”

of cannibalism. It is also where Captain John Smith, a councillor in Jamestown, claimed to have been saved by Pocahontas, which is important because it created one of the first good relationships between settlers and Native Americans. The Wounded Knee massacre of 1890 was a battle fought between the Sioux (a Native American tribe), and the U.S. government. The U.S. government was worried about the “Ghost Dance,” a dance that Natives performed in a hope that their Gods would create a new world without