US History Mid-Term Essay 1a. Describe at least four important factors that led up to the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. In addition‚ explain the significance of Wounded Knee in the larger context of the Indian Wars. The Wounded Knee massacre occurred in 1890 between white American settlers and the Sioux people. The Sioux refused to follow US military orders to give up their weapons and instead engaged in battle. Over 300 people‚ including women and children‚ were massacred during the battle
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In the movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee which originally written by Dee Brown‚ and produced by HBO Films in year 2007‚ there are several social roles and social statuses portrayed in the movie. Social statuses are any of the full range of socially defined positions that someone occupies within a large group or society‚ from the lowest to the highest. Social status can divided into many types‚ which are ascribed status‚ achieved status and master status. Different social statuses have different
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Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a fully documented account of the annihilation of the American Indian in the late 1800s ending at the Battle of Wounded Knee. Brown brings to light a story of torture and atrocity not well known in American history. The fashion in which the American Indian was exterminated is best summed up in the words of Standing Bear of the Poncas‚ "When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral‚ and then they slaughter them
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entitled to the gold of the Black Hills and invaded the territory; laying railroad‚ depleting resources‚ and forcibly driving the Indians from their homeland. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is an HBO production directed by Yves Simoneau and based on the final two chapters of Dee Brown’s identically titled best-seller. It shares the heart-wrenching story of the American Indian’s legendary resistance against the U.S. Government’s oppressive reservation policy and settlement expansion into the Black
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Dee Brown’s book‚ Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee will forever remind myself of the cruelty of those who came before us. Are we still a cruel nation? I am certain that those dealing with Native Americans in the 19th century felt they were not. The term Manifest Destiny was first defined by journalist‚ John L. O’Sullivan in 1845 as‚ “And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee The Indians were being confined to crowed reservations that were poorly run‚ had scarce game‚ alcohol was plentiful‚ the soil was poor‚ and the ancient religious practices were prohibited. The Indians were not happy that they had been kicked off there land and were now forced to live on a reservation. The Indians then began to Ghost Dance a form of religion it is said that if the Indians were to do this trance like dance the country would be cleansed of white
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown starts off discussing the relationship between the Native-Americans and the Whites. Along with the backstory of Christopher Columbus during the discovery of North America while on an expedition. It then discusses the history of the American and European discovery towards the settlement in North America from the late 1400s until the mid-1800s and how it affected the Native-Americans. What was once diplomatic‚ became more vicious as white exile from Europe
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Imagine a person being forced off of their property. How would they feel? They would fight back‚ right? That is precisely what the Indians did. Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee demonstrates that‚ because the American Indians’ rights‚ lifestyle‚ and land were taken from them‚ they were demoted to a life of poverty and barbarism in order to survive. Many Indians had their rights stripped away from them the moment that the whites had found their land. When the miners found Gold on the Utes territory they
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Dee Brown. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York‚ NY: Henry Holt and Company. 1971. Pp xiv‚ 445. In the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee‚ which was written by Dee Brown and published in 1971‚ Brown talked about the horrific experiences that the Indians endured while living in America. Residing in the east‚ and faced with numerous threats‚ Native American Indian tribes were forced West by the government during the 19th century. The book explained all of the backlashes they received from
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