The Wounded Knee Massacre

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The Wounded Knee Massacre
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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

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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

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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

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• Big Foot gets scared
• Tries to move his followers
  to safety in the Bad Lands
• Stopped by soldiers
• They were moved to Wounded
  Knee

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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

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• December 29th the Indians were ordered to hand
  over their guns
• Only two were given
• The soldiers searched the camp and found 40 guns

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• Indian gun went off
• Soldiers in the camp started firing
• Soldiers on the hill fired at the teepees with
  the Hotchkiss guns

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• Over 300 Indians killed
• 31 soldiers killed
• Ended all Indian resistance

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References

• http//www.hanksville.org/daniel/lakota/Ghost_Danc
  e.html
• http//littlebighorn.8k.com/main.htm
• http//www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/custer.htm
• http//encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574723/Woun
  ded_Knee.html
• http//siouxme.com/massacre.html
• http//www.wmburgweb.com/DigitalScrapbooks/Travel9
  8/PineRidge/pineridge.html
• http//www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/united_states/fed_l
  ands_2003/south_dakota_2003.pdf
• http//www.lastoftheindependents.com/wounded.htm
• http//www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/woundedk
  nee/WKIntro.html
• http//msnbc.com/onair/msnbc/TimeandAgain/archive/
  wknee/ghost.asp?cp11
• http//www.archives.gov/research_room/research_top
  ics/native_americans/select_list_021.html
• http//www.archives.gov/research_room/research_top
  ics/native_americans/select_list_033.html
• http//www.archives.gov/research_room/research_top
  ics/native_americans/select_list_090.html
• "Indian Dances of North America" by Reginald and
  Gladys Laubin