Wounded Knee Massacre

VICTORIA JUHASZABBEY POLTANISJOSH HOCHZACH HARSCH

Reasons for Conflicts• In the 1890’s the US Government worried about the

increasing of the Ghost Dance Movement. This ghost dance taught the Indians that they had angered the gods by abandoning their traditional customs and that was why the had been defeated and confined to reservations. The Sioux believed that if they practiced the ghost dance and reject the white man the gods would create a new world and destroy all of the non-believers and non-Indians.

Major PlayersThe major players that were involved in the wounded knee massacre were the 7th Cavalry of the US Army, once was Custer Regiment and the Sioux Indians, Sitting Bull.

Details on Conflicts and Battle• In December 1890, police tried to arrest Sitting Bull, the

famous Sioux chief, who they mistakenly believed was a Ghost Dancer and killed him in the process.

• In December of 1890 the US Army’s 7th Cavalry surrounded a band of Ghost Dancers near Wounded Knee Creek. The Army demanded that the Indians surrender their weapons. As that was happening a fight broke out between the Indians and the 7th Cavalry. A brutal massacre followed in which it is estimated that 150 Indians were kill nearly half of them women and children while the cavalry only lost 25.

The Impact of Conflict onNATIVE GROUP AND US

GOVERNMENT

• AIM (American Indian Movement ) had many battles that happened after the massacre. The longest being days that started on February 27, 1973 at the same place of the 1890 massacre.

WESTERN SETTLEMENT

• Western settlement kept going as it was because the Indians were moved to the new reservations and the US government had a little more control over them having chairmen for each tribe.

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