“The Tragedy of Wounded Knee” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EdRT56WK7Q (1) By 1890, all Native Americans lived on reservations. Describe conditions. (2) Ghost Dance … (3) Summarize events of Wounded Knee … (4) Lakota Man’s Comments … What is your response to the quote from Rick Williams, a Lakota man when he says, “Wounded Knee happened yesterday, for Lakota people …”

Assimilation (1887) - Dawes Act – communal tribal lands divided into 160 acre allotments per family Two cows and yoke of oxen Farm tools $20 cash Seed for five acres for two years 40 Acres 40 Acres 160 Acre Allotments 40 Acres 40 Acres

Great Sioux Reservation of 1868

Sioux Act of 1889 – Creates six much smaller reservations in Western South Dakota with break-up of Great Sioux Reservation, including today’s … Pine Ridge Rosebud Cheyenne River Standing Rock Allotment of lands Excess lands opened for homesteading Loss of 9 million acres of land

Black Hills Cession of 1877 The legislative act to cede the Black Hills to the United States government

* U.S. Government vs. Sioux Nation (1980) Supreme Court decision declaring the Black Hills Cession illegal * Modern Oklahoma Court Case … * “Bradley Bill” (1987) (or Sioux Nation Black Hills Act) Attempt by Congressman to return 1.3 million acres of the Black Hills to the Sioux Nation

“The Tragedy of Wounded Knee” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EdRT56WK7Q (1) By 1890, all Native Americans lived on reservations. Describe conditions. (2) Ghost Dance … (3) Summarize events of Wounded Knee … (4) Lakota Man’s Comments … What is your response to the quote from Rick Williams, a Lakota man, “Wounded Knee happened yesterday, for Lakota people, Wounded Knee is today, it represents … even though it happened in 1890, it is fresh in Lakota peoples’ minds and hearts … when we talk about Indian-white relations, that’s the first thing that comes to mind.”

Massacre at Wounded Knee, Dec. 29, 1890 Under leadership of Big Foot, Minneconjou camp Traveling to Pine Ridge 200, possibly as many as 300 to 350 killed More or less unarmed

"the last conflict of the American Indian wars"

Stevens. (1932). Women Survivors of Wounded Knee at cemetery, May 25, 1932. View of a group of female survivors of the Wounded Knee Massacre, posed in front of the monument at the Wounded Knee cemetery honoring the dead of the Massacre on 29 December, 1890. They are posed with children, floral tributes, and American flags. The monument was erected in 1903 at the site of the mass grave of victims, by surviving relatives to honor the “many innocent women and children who knew no wrong…”who were killed in the massacre [Photograph]. Smithsonian- NMAI. Used with permission.

“Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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