Wounded Knee Research Paper
The Battle at Wounded Knee
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.
The Wounded Knee massacre took place on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee creek in South Dakota, USA. The massacre was the American military fighting against the Native-Americans. It’s an important part of history because it is the last battle that took place during the American Indian war. The American-Indian war was made up of many different wars between the American Military and the Native-American people. They were fighting because the Europeans came to America and they were slowly trying to expand their territory into the Native-Americans territory and take their land away. The day before the massacre occurred, the 7th Calvary Regiment intercepted the Native-American tribe known as Lakota. The regiment escorted the native’s to Wounded Knee …show more content…
Even though the soldiers killed the innocent and mostly unarmed Lakota, they were seen as heroes, doing the right thing, and that they deserved to receive the prized medals of honor, an medal for courageous acts. Today, what the cavalrymen did is seen as wrong and unacceptable by most people. Thunderhawk, a Lakota tribesman, believes that the medals should be taken away from the soldiers, he says that “the medals should be taken away because the medal of honor is meant to reward soldiers who act heroically, but at wounded knee they didn 't show heroism, they showed cruelty.”(Johnson 344). They weren 't doing their job in an appropriate way, they were killing innocent people. This question of right and wrong is a part of understanding the deviant acts and how some rule breaking/ breaking the law now, was once seen as the “norm” and was
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.
The Wounded Knee massacre took place on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee creek in South Dakota, USA. The massacre was the American military fighting against the Native-Americans. It’s an important part of history because it is the last battle that took place during the American Indian war. The American-Indian war was made up of many different wars between the American Military and the Native-American people. They were fighting because the Europeans came to America and they were slowly trying to expand their territory into the Native-Americans territory and take their land away. The day before the massacre occurred, the 7th Calvary Regiment intercepted the Native-American tribe known as Lakota. The regiment escorted the native’s to Wounded Knee …show more content…
Even though the soldiers killed the innocent and mostly unarmed Lakota, they were seen as heroes, doing the right thing, and that they deserved to receive the prized medals of honor, an medal for courageous acts. Today, what the cavalrymen did is seen as wrong and unacceptable by most people. Thunderhawk, a Lakota tribesman, believes that the medals should be taken away from the soldiers, he says that “the medals should be taken away because the medal of honor is meant to reward soldiers who act heroically, but at wounded knee they didn 't show heroism, they showed cruelty.”(Johnson 344). They weren 't doing their job in an appropriate way, they were killing innocent people. This question of right and wrong is a part of understanding the deviant acts and how some rule breaking/ breaking the law now, was once seen as the “norm” and was