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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is a fully documented account of the genocide and displacement by the United States government and military of an entire race of people, human beings, natives of the land that spanned from sea to shining sea. This unthinkable inhumane act was done in the name of Manifest Destiny, a name Congress gave to this movement. Brown documents battles and defeats of the Navaho, Nez Perces, Cheyenne, Apache, Utes, the Sioux and other tribes against a relentless and dishonorable government.
The Great Sioux Nation, once comprised of almost a quarter of the land mass of the continental United States, signed the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868, establishing the Great Sioux Reservation. This treaty brought a halt to the Red Cloud War of 1966-1868. Under the terms of the treaty, the United States military was to...
However, in 1874, Lt. Colonel George A. Custer commanding the seventh cavalry, violated the treaty by entering into the Black Hills region on a supposed geological expedition, the true objective was to pick a site for the establishment of a military post. With the discovery of gold, the rush of prospectors swarmed into the Sioux territory, breaking the treaty of 1868.
By 1874 the whites out numbered and out gunned the Sioux.
By 1890, after years of battles and broken promises, there was little left of the Great Sioux lands. In October, Kicking Bear visited Sitting Bull, the most respected of the chiefs. Kicking Bear recounted his vision of the Ghost Dance, shown to him by the Messiah, Christ. The Messiah, he said, told him those who danced the Ghost Dance would be "taken up…
Work Cited
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. Henry Holt & Company,
Incorporated. December 2000.
Some of the Indians could understand English. This and other things alarmed the Indians and scuffle occurred between one warrior who had rifle in his hand and two soldiers. The rifle was discharged and a massacre occurred, not only the warriors but the sick Chief Big Foot, and a large number of women and children who tried to escape by running and scattering over the parry were hunted down
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