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    This assignment will critique a literature review using evidence based practice. As healthcare professionals‚ evidence based practice is part of our everyday life. Evidence based practice is a complex experience that requires synthesising study findings to establish the best research evidence and correlate ideas to form a body of empirical knowledge (Burns & Grove 2007). It means having a clear rationale for your decisions in practice and your provision of care. Evidence based practice requires

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    Nate Murray Wounded Knee Massacre – Black Elk Speaks‚ The Butchering At Wounded Knee History and background How it started: In years previous to the massacre the US government had been seizing large portions of the Native American tribe‚ the Sioux’s lands. Bison herds had reached near extinction and the treaty promises to the Native Americans protecting reservation lands were not being met. It was during this time that news spread among the reservations of a Native American prophet by the name

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    The natives lay on the cold‚ damp earth‚ taking in their final breaths‚ before their hearts ceased beating‚ and came their demise. The Wounded Knee Massacre was one of the biggest and most violent confrontations between the Native Americans and the American people and government. It claimed as many as 300 or more of the 350 Indian lives in Wounded Knee Creek‚ South Dakota‚ and half of those killed were women and children. It was the final major clash between the Native Americans and the U.S. military

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    The Wounded Knee Massacre took place on December 29‚ 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek‚ in South Dakota. Both‚ the New York Times and the London Times have published articles on this event. However‚ their interpretations of the event are quite different. It is interesting how the same event can be portrayed in two completely contrasting ways. Specifically‚ the New York Times justifies the American’s actions towards the Native Americans‚ whereas the London Times portrays the American’s actions as unacceptable

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    destruction‚ imposing measures intended to prevent birth‚ and forcibly transferring children of a particular group. Based off these criteria of genocide I believe the acts upon the Lakota Sioux Indians highlighting the instance of the Battle of Wounded Knee and Indian Boarding Schools are acts of genocide. The acts committed on the Sioux Indians can be deemed genocidal for a number of reasons‚ they might not have been acting on the basis to destroy the culture and the people of the Lakota Sioux yet

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    to everyone. In 1902‚ several hundred thousand acres were cleared out for white settlers. In 1907‚ the Indian Nations ceased to exist‚ and when Oklahoma became a state‚ all Native American territory was assimilated into the Union. The Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890 is known as the event that ended the last of the Indian wars in America. As the year came to a close‚ the Seventh Cavalry brought an end to the century-long U.S. government-Indian

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    ten lodges of Arapaho under Chief Left Hand‚ representing about fifty or sixty people‚ only a handful escaped with their lives.And it was deemed the worst massacre because it killed mostly wemon and children. Wounded knee- Date December 29‚ 1890 Location Wounded Knee Creek‚ South Dakota Result Decisive United States victory Belligerents United States Miniconjou Sioux Hunkpapa Sioux Commanders and leaders United States James W. Forsyth Spotted Elk † Strength 7th U.S. Cavalry

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    New Life I believe Ivan’s assessment on the American west is fair. The settlers were eager people ready to start a new life and seek what the world has for them. While the Indians were just peaceful inhabitants fighting for their land and rights‚ learning the ways of the white man. The vast majority of their land had been taken from them and their traditional economic systems were obliterated‚ and the buffalo on which they had depended on were slaughtered by the millions. Epidemic diseases such

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    The Ghost Dance In January 1889‚ Wavoka‚ a Paiute Indian‚ had a revelation during a total eclipse of the sun. It was the genesis of a religious movement that would become known as the Ghost Dance. It was this dance that the Indians believed would reunite them with friends and relatives in the ghost world. The legend states that after prayer and ceremony‚ the earth would shatter and let forth a great flood that would drown all the whites and enemy Indians‚ leaving the earth untouched and as it

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    If we both remember correctly the Indians weren’t treated equally. The Indians in Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee were starving for several days and different tribes would come in and destroy everything they had. When problems came up like this the government wouldn’t even help me out. They had struggled with a lot of other problems to. The land promised to the Native Americans was stolen under false treaties resulting in thousands of casualties. The first issue was when the Cheyennes had found out

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