Tragedy At Wounded Knee Summary

Tragedy at Wounded Knee Response Indians in America from the beginning of the new world have always been mistreated. Our American government has run them off their lands massacred thousands and taken their means of life. We killed off all their buffalo made them migrate to camps or reservations were the ground was unable to grow the Indians crops. So the Indians no longer had buffalo to live off or land that was sufficient enough to grow food they were not able to survive the way they were able to for hundreds of years. We also tried to in a way brainwash them and make them accustomed to our culture and they were unable to speak their native tongues or practice their old ways and were expected to survive.

The Indians were left no choice but to take the white mans offer or treaties because they had nothing left. The Indians were deprived of their game buffalo and their land in order to
After the attack Flying Hawk recalls there was a terrible blizzard that came through freezing the dead corpses and after two days as they began to dump the corpses into a trench many were women some even bearing children in their arms who were still alive. This is astonishing and very gruesome, these men and woman have been ill treated by the white man their whole lives and now are being massacred for no apparent reason.

According to Benjamin Harrison the people of the Sioux are naturally aggressive and warlike people that even though they may have had just complaints they were still a threat to the government officials and the settlers there. The Indians had preached of a coming messiah who would help them defeat their enemies, Harrison gave permission to General Miles to “all such forces as we thought by him to be required” were at his disposal but with the “least possible loss of