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Wounded Knee Massacre

Wounded Knee Massacre. By Stephen Ching Alex DeNolfo Tomas Ventrone. Ghost Dance. A religion that was a hybrid of native religions and the religions emigrants brought Celebrated with dancing Started in the 1880s Dancers wore white shirts that were believed to repel bullets

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Wounded Knee Massacre

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  1. Wounded Knee Massacre By Stephen Ching Alex DeNolfo Tomas Ventrone

  2. Ghost Dance • A religion that was a hybrid of native religions and the religions emigrants brought • Celebrated with dancing • Started in the 1880s • Dancers wore white shirts that were believed to repel bullets • Predicted that the world wound end in the coming years • Religion was focused to give the Native Americans hope

  3. Events Leading Up to The Wounded Knee Massacre • The Indians were moved to the bad lands • Sitting Bull decided the teach his tribe Ghost Dance • The religious spike startled the government as a guide for a rebellion • Government sent men to take control of the Lakota Camps • Sitting Bull was arrested, but tried to resist and was killed

  4. The Wounded Knee Massacre • The U.S. cavalry 500 Cavalry Troops under the command of Colonel James W. Forsyth arrested the Sioux Tribe led by Big Foot • The U.S. tells them to set up camp at the Wounded Knee creek • Big Foot’s tribe are told to give up their weapons • As the guns were confiscated, a stray bullet was fired • Alarm sent Hochtkiss guns firing at the Indians • The Indians gathered their guns from the pile and began to fight • The fighting Indian killed twenty-nine and wounded thirty-nine more • All Indians were mercilessly massacred

  5. Effect of Ghost Dance • Ghost Dance spread all over the Native American world

  6. Effects of The Wounded Knee Massacre • The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last major contact between the U.S. and the Indians • The entire Sioux Tribe was killed • Made it more acceptable to kill Indians

  7. Bibliography Carnes, Jim. “Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee.” Us and Them: 59-65. Print. “December 29 is the Anniversary of Wounded Knee.” Manataka.org . Manataka™ American Indian Council, n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. <http://www.manataka.org/‌page1080.html>. “Mooney’s Published Illustrations of the Ghost Dance.” indiana.edu. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Nov. 2011. <http://php.indiana.edu/‌~tkavanag/‌visualb.html>. “U.S.- Ghost Dance.” wikispaces.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Nov. 2011. <http://wa8.wikispaces.com/‌GhostDance>. “Wounded Knee.” Wounded Knee Massacre- December 1890. The Last of The Independents, n.d. Web. 5 Nov. 2011. <http://www.lastoftheindependents.com/‌wounded.htm>.

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