the course of the next 71 days‚ armed conflict took place between AIM and police forces. Women had a prominent role in the Wounded Knee Incident‚ as they were the numerical majority. Armed women guarded the town‚ and the idea of having the stand at Wounded Knee was that of a woman‚ Gladys Bissonette. (Langston‚ 1) She is quoted as saying‚ "Let’s make our stand at Wounded Knee‚ because that place has meaning for us‚ because so many of our people were massacred there.” (Brave Bird‚ 195). Once the stand
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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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importance of the Battle of Wounded Knee and its impact on the white population‚ it is essential to understand the attitudes and presumptions held by Native Americans and whites during this time. By the time that Wounded Knee took place there had been decades of hostility between Native Americans and Europeans. These feelings created deep prejudices and biases between whites and natives. Such deep biases were not easily forgotten which attests the importance of Wounded Knee. The battle‚ which would
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1. The Wounded Knee Massacre took place on December 29‚ 1890‚ but the tensions that led to this eruption in conflict had long been developing. For years the United States government had been seizing land that belonged to Native Americans through “trickery… deportation… and murder”‚ including that of the Lakota Sioux‚ who were the victims of the massacre. Not only that‚ “Americans had shown ‘democratic energy and enterprise’ in ‘driving back the Indians‚ or annihilating them as a race’”‚ demonstrating
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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
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The first document is an excerpt from Black Elk’s autobiography regarding the Wounded Knee Massacre. The second document is an excerpt from President Benjamin Harrison’s annual message describing the conflict and progress of the program to decrease Native American’s landholdings. The audience of these two excerpts is the general public. However‚ in general‚ Native Americans were more interested considering that it was their land and people diminishing. I find it interesting that President Harrison
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Native American removal and war with Mexico. In doing so‚ Native Americans faced harsh conditions and were treated horribly. The Great Plain Indians endured the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890‚ killing of the Buffalo‚ and many acts such as the Dawes act and Homestead. The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29‚ 1980‚ near Wounded Knee Creek on an Indian Reservation. It was a battle between U.S. military troops and Lakota Sioux Indians. This battle resulted in the deaths of 300 Sioux men‚ women
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The Wounded Knee Massacre (1890) followers of the Sioux tribe identified their beliefs had been shattered‚ felt like the Ghost dance was their only hope‚ everybody who thought the Ghost dance ceremonies beliefs; authority wanted would be returned and the white
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“To own the Earth‚ There is no word for this in the Sioux Language.” The Battle of Wounded Knee was the last battle of the American Indian Wars it was also one of the most gruesome battles that either side had seen. An estimated three hundred Indians lay dead while the US army had lost twenty five and thirty nine were wounded some of who would die later. This was one of the worst acts that the Americans have ever done to the Native Americans. One Native American stated later “it was as if the soldiers
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condition of threats between the infringing pioneers and the Sioux Nation. Amid this time‚ probably the most well-known fights between Native Americans and the U.S. Government unfolded. The Little Big Horn maybe being the most acclaimed‚ but then Wounded Knee being it’s generally notorious. The Death of Colonel George Armstrong Custer‚ however‚ prompted the American people afresh against the Native American as those obstructing advancement and American Manifest Destiny instead of those with rights to
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