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
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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
Knee
Wounded
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
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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
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/woundedknee/WKIntro.html
http://msnbc.com/onair/msnbc/TimeandAgain/archive/wknee/ghost.asp?cp1=1
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