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The Wounded Knee Massacre
The Sioux• Peaceful nomadic
hunters• Were promised the
Black Hills in the Dakotas
• A gold rush in 1874• Sitting Bull defeated
Colonel George A. Custer in the Battle of Little Bighorn
The Ghost Dance
• Started in 1886 by Wokovo
• A new world without white men
• A world with plenty of game
• Dead would be resurrected
• Wearing the shirt would keep them from death
The Death of Sitting Bull• The Ghost Dance
reached Standing Rock
• Sitting Bull refused to stop it
• A fight ensued and Sitting Bull along with seven Indians died
• Big Foot gets scared
• Tries to move his followers to safety in the Bad Lands
• Stopped by soldiers
• They were moved to Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee Camp
• The Tipis were set up in a valley next to Wounded Knee Creek
• Surrounded by soldiers
• Four Hotchkiss guns on a hill overlooking the camp
• December 29th the Indians were ordered to hand over their guns
• Only two were given• The soldiers searched
the camp and found 40 guns
• Indian gun went off• Soldiers in the camp
started firing • Soldiers on the hill
fired at the teepees with the Hotchkiss guns
• Over 300 Indians killed
• 31 soldiers killed• Ended all Indian
resistance
• http://www.hanksville.org/daniel/lakota/Ghost_Dance.html
• http://littlebighorn.8k.com/main.htm
• http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/custer.htm
• http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574723/Wounded_Knee.html
• http://siouxme.com/massacre.html
• http://www.wmburgweb.com/DigitalScrapbooks/Travel98/PineRidge/pineridge.html
• http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/united_states/fed_lands_2003/south_dakota_2003.pdf
• http://www.lastoftheindependents.com/wounded.htm
• http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/woundedknee/WKIntro.html
• http://msnbc.com/onair/msnbc/TimeandAgain/archive/wknee/ghost.asp?cp1=1
• http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/native_americans/select_list_021.html
• http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/native_americans/select_list_033.html
• http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/native_americans/select_list_090.html
• "Indian Dances of North America" by Reginald and Gladys Laubin
References