Massacre Of Wounded Knee

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end of Indian America is marked by what can only be called a massacre.
In 1880, the Great Sioux Reservation corralled the Sioux tribes and gave white American agencies control over their activities. The establishment of
separate reservations blurred long-standing tribal distinctions. The older, subtribals gradually became obsolete and Indians began to identify themselves according to their reservations. The Sioux struggled to uphold to many of their old customs and traditions and were torn from the only life that they ever knew. The once proud Sioux found their free-roaming life destroyed, the buffalo gone, and themselves confined to reservations dependent on Indian agents for their existence. So the Indians obstinately clung onto the one thing that they had left - their religion. For the Sioux people, this dominated nearly every thought and action.
In 1889, one of the most powerful medicine men, Wovoka of the Pauite tribe, had a vision. He had seen the buffalo return ...

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out of his cabin and into the snow while he was wearing only his underwear. A large crowd had gathered and a few of the Indians carried rifles. No other chief so fully personified the spirit of Indian resistance as
Sitting Bull. When a shot rang out, other people also opened fire. Along with eight other villagers, the mighty chief had been killed.
About one hundred of Sitting Bull's followers joined the camp of Chief Big Foot. On route to a neighboring tribe, they were spotted by a unit of the Seventh Cavalry. Big Foot, sick from pneumonia and coughing up blood, surrendered to the soldiers. The Indians were ordered to set up their tattered lodgings on Wounded Knee Creek.
After a ...

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