The Wounded Knee Massacre, officially known as The Wounded Knee Battle, occurred on December 29, 1890, in the Lakota Reservation. It was the last major killing of Native Americans. The conflict was between the United States 7th cavalry and the Lakota Tribe, but the Lakota did nothing to provoke the fight. Years before this, the Americans continued to steal the Lakotas land hunt the bison to extinction. The Americans were encroaching on their land for gold. The treaty promises that protested the
BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN Introduction The Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River, marked one of the most decisive Native American victories and the worst U.S. Army defeat during the Plains Indian War. Mounting tension between the U.S. government and the Plains Indians was continually increasing, resultant of a dispute over reservation land and the highly desirable Black Hills. After many Indians missed government deadlines to move to reservation
In the conflict between the Native Americans and United States government, the Indians were irrevocably justified in everything they did to defend themselves. The whites started settling in Dakota and disregarded the fact that there were people who lived there before them; the Indians. The United States government wanted the Indians' land but the Indians wanted fair treatment. Treaties were signed between the Natives and U.S government and the reservation system was implemented. The United States
Crazy Horse was phenomenal in his actions and therefore needed a just as phenomenal monument. The Crazy Horse Memorial, a huge face carved into a mountain lies in South Dakota. Carved in 1948, it became a legacy as soon as the public knew about it. It inspired many to do similar and to learn about Crazy Horse, an enormously important person to American history that not many people knew about. The Crazy Horse Memorial who symbolizes himself and his actions, the beauty of art and carving, and is talked
Wounded Knee Massacre The Wounded Knee was the massacre with the U.S military troops against the Lakota Sioux Indians. The white soldiers like they called them, surrounded them and killed 300 Sioux men including women and children. 300 innocent death were caused without compassion. The U.S government were convinced that this religion was going to be a threat against the U.S government and population. But not only the Sioux were being killed they were also being torture. Most of the Sioux’s men weren’t
A lot of native nations lived on the Great Plains including the Sioux. The name Sioux comes from the sioun word “Nadowessi” which means little snake.The sioux indians originally came from Asia. These Native Americans lived in the territory of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North and South Dakota etc. A Frenchman, moved into Sioux territory in the seventeenth century and took control of much of their land. The Sioux Indians were a powerful tribe with a rich history. The sioux we