The Wounded Knee Massacre was a massacre of Lakota people by U.S. soldiers on Pine Ridge Reservation. In the late 1800s, many Lakota began practicing the Ghost Dance, a ceremony that white settlers and the U.S. government feared as a sign of impending attack. To stamp out the religion, the U.S. government sent soldiers to arrest the Dancers. In December of 1890, soldiers surrounded a group of Lakota led by a chief named Big Foot. On the morning of December 29, 1890, U.S. soldiers opened fire on the group of Lakota, murdering nearly 300 Lakota men, women, and children.
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1890 Wounded Knee Massacre Term Timeline in Lakota Woman
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Chapter 1: A Woman from He-Dog
...of a kind of traditional flute. He lived 100 years and has memories of the Wounded Knee Massacre —he was camped by Wounded Knee when the massacre took place. Later, he saw the...
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Chapter 8: Cankpe Opi Wakpala
...one doesn’t accomplish much with militancy either, at least it makes them feel better. The Occupation of Wounded Knee was an example of this—it wasn’t intended to cause militancy.
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...explain the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, as it played a major role in the Occupation of Wounded Knee . This Reorganization Act was the federal government’s attempt to force a democratic government on...
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...it is there that Custer's Seventh Cavalry massacred hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children. The massacre is part of Mary's family history, both on Leonard's side and her own: they each...
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Chapter 9: The Siege
The three main buildings that the activists used during the 71-day-long occupation of Wounded Knee were the Sacred Heart Church, the museum, and the Gildersleeve Trading Post. The trading post...
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Chapter 10: The Ghosts Return
Just as the Ghost Dance religion was a central part of the Wounded Knee Massacre , so were several Native American religious rituals at the heart of the siege of...
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...his people. Other chiefs were not as fortunate—most notably, Big Foot and his people were massacred at Wounded Knee , after he had surrendered.
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...interjects to recount the words of Black Elk, an Oglala man who wrote about the Wounded Knee Massacre . In his book, he said that Wounded Knee wasn’t just the massacre site for...
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