1. “The Tragedy of Wounded Knee”
(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 …”

2. 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

3. Great Sioux Reservation of 1868

4. 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

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

9. * 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

10. “The Tragedy of Wounded Knee”
(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.”

11. 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

13. "the last conflict of the American Indian wars"

15. Stevens. (1932). Women Survivors of Wounded Knee at cemetery, May 25, 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, 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.

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

17. Wisconsin Students Give “Sieg Heil” Nazi Salute

18. Oct., 2017 in Sturgis, SD
- Read handout