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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“Wounded Knee Massacre” Melinda Belcher May 2‚ 2010 In 1848 a series of gold and silver discoveries signaled the first serious interest by white settlers in the arid and semiarid lands beyond the Mississippi‚ where many Indian nations had been forced to migrate. To open more land‚ federal officials introduced in 1851 a policy of “concentration.” Tribes were pressured into signing treaties limiting the boundaries of their hunting grounds to “reservations” The Sioux tribe was limited to the
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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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In The Shadow Of The Wounded Knee by Alexandra Fuller is an article which talks about the Wounded Knee tribe‚ and what historical events against them have led the people left from the tribe‚ to today. This paper was mostly an interview with Alex White Plume‚ a 60 year old man who lives near wounded knee creek. Talking about what he lives by‚ and what he and his tribe have had to overcome. In the beginning‚ the article Talks about Alex White Plume‚ and his “low THC” hemp farm. This was important
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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
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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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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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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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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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