Wounded Knee

Wounded Knee Wounded Knee was a sore event in US history. It showed how the US governing didnt sympathize the Native Americans and treated them badly and unfairly. Big Foot was the main(prenominal) of a subtribe of the Lakota called Miniconjou. He was very old and had pneumonia. He was winning his tribe to the Pine Ridge Reservation in south-western southwesterly Dakota. Most of the women and children in Big Foots tribe were family members of the warriors who had died in the Plains wars. The Indians had hold to live on small reservations after the US government took away their land.

At the Wounded Knee camp, there were long hundred men and 230 women and children. At the camp, they were guarded by the US one-seventh Cavalry lead by Major Samuel Whitside. During the year 1890 a new dance called the Ghost Dance started among the Sioux and other tribes. The Siouxs deliverer figure, Wovoka, was said to have flown over Sitting Bull and rook Bull and taught them the dance and the songs. The Ghost Dance le...If you want to stop a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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