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

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• 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

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