Native American Indians. Yet another influential event‚ The American Indian Movement staged a protest at Wounded Knee‚ South Dakota. The protest was an effort to raise political awareness about the condition of the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation (Rich 70). In her article‚ “Remember Wounded Knee‚” Rich states‚ “Wounded Knee came to stand for simply the site of the 1890 Big Foot massacre in which many of the Big Foot’s people died‚ running from the advancing
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western South Dakota. His was part of Wahpenton and Mdewakanton Dakota tribe rather than Oglala Lakota and took pride in being Native. Upon his arrival‚ he experienced a disastourous dust storm and later would come across the aftermath of a massacre. The massacre was due to altercations of warfare on the northern Plains. The tribes consisted of the following: the Lokotas who were known as the Sioux from the western portion and the Dakotas who were known as the mdewakantons‚ Sisseton‚ Wahpekute‚ and
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farmers It failed. But it failed‚ some of the land was not fit for farming and ranching. Some refused and rejected to adopt a different way of life‚ some sold their land to white settlers‚ and others were upset that their land was lost. Then the Wounded Knee Massacre happened in 1890‚ Members of the Sioux Tribe felt that their culture had been destroyed. Financially dependent on the US government for their annuities‚ they were not able to support themselves by hunting buffalo. Ghost Dance offered hope‚
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Personal Essay Black Elk Speaks Before reading Black Elk Speaks I thought that Native Americans were all the same they fought wars and rode around on horse. They either won or lost the wars they fought in and they all lived in teepees. I really didn’t have much knowledge on them. I’ve always know that they had a very deep spiritual connection to nature and their world around them but I didn’t know the reasons why. Before reading I didn’t think about things as much like the world and animals; I
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When the battle of Wounded Knee happened – which cannot really be called a battle‚ but more a bloody massacre – the Indians were not doing anything that could have been considered attacking the white men‚ or even controversial. They were doing a ghost dance‚ because they were fearful about what the white men were
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have to live there and improve the land for at least five years. This Act caused distribution of about eighty million acres of land to the public. With this great offer hundreds of people decided to pack their bags and move to the west. Sand Creek Massacre(1864): The Homestead Act persuaded many settlers to move West in hopes of starting a simpler life then those who decided to stay in the city. Soon the discovery of gold caused settlers to flood into the western side of the United States. Consequently
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(1860’s) the Natives were practically under their control as they were being rounded up and caged in reservations by the Whites. One of the main events in this period was the massacre at Wounded Knee as it brought an end to the Sioux tribe’s freedom and was seen as the final protest by the Native Americans. It was called a massacre due to the fact that 200 unarmed men‚ women and children were slaughtered by the federal governments military. To the Natives this slaughter brought home the realisation that
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were captured and transported to Spain as slaves. They were enslaved and forced to work in Spanish mines in the Americas‚ with the average worker dying by age 26. European diseases also took their toll and thousands were killed in countless massacres. A population of 80 million peoples decreased to only 10 million within a century. Mexico’s population of 25 million Indians twindled to barely a million within the century following the arrival of Spaniards in 1519. (Ref. Black Indians ‚ William
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Kettle White Antelope San Creek Massacre‚ 1864 Washita River Massacre Apache Indians Geronimo Gen. George Cook Sioux Indians Black Hills‚ 1874 Treaty of Fort Laramie‚ 1868 Red Cloud Spotted Tail Sitting Bull Ulysses S. Grant & peace Peace Policy‚ 1869 Custer’s Last Stand‚ 1876- great Indian Killer Little Big Horn- john Custer is killed Crazy Horse Effects / ramifications Massacre at Wounded Knee‚ 1890-native Americans vs. U.S army
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Even if it was quite a good deal for the federal government‚ a lot of people who were part of the Cherokee tribe felt betrayed because the negotiators did not represent the tribal government. John Ross‚ the principal chief of the Nation once wrote “The instrument in question is not the act of our nation‚” to the Senate of the United States of America protesting against this treaty. Furthermore‚ a large number of Cherokees (about 16‚000) signed Ross’s petition‚ but the treaty was approved anyway by
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