The BIA sent the tribal police to arrest Sitting Bull and to make them stop the dance. In this attempt Sitting Bull was killed along with policemen. After this incident the U.S. sent the 7th Calvary to disarm the Lakota. In the events that happened after, the U.S. soldiers opened fire on the Sioux killing about 200. This was known as the Wounded Knee Massacre.
When Forscyth's troops surrounded Black Coyote to disarm the man, Black Coyote's gun fired off and caused the troops to fire their weapons at other Indians, thus triggering the massacre. The massacre lasted for less than an hour, but the death toll was high, with 150 Lakota dead and 50 wounded. The siege of Wounded Knee occurred over 80 years later in the year 1973. Before the siege started, members of the Lakota tribe, whose ancestors were involved in the Wounded Knee massacre, and other tribes decided to meet in order to discuss issues such as high unemployment rates and the policies of the Federal Government concerning the tribes. This meeting formed the American Indian Movement, or AIM.
We can see this in source 2, page 38, by the medicine man of the Blackfoot, painted by George Catlin. This has a very negative view on the Sioux Indians because it is showing that they have killed animals and that they don’t care that they wore animal skin over their clothing and do not realise that if they killed animals just for that then their food supply will run out quicker. This source is produced by George Catlin, who is a reliable white US soldier, settler. It is reliable because who it is produced by, as he saw a lot of things that the Sioux Indians did. It is also unreliable because this is a painting of what they were when they were in a ceremony not there everyday life.
Buffalo Soldiers (1997) Movie Review The story begins with the sad image of white Texas Rangers stringing up innocent Apache children in hopes of gathering information about Indian chief Victorio. This scene reminded me of the KKK lynching blacks. Luckily, the Buffalo Soldiers arrive in time to save the day and apprehend the rangers. The movie starts in the New Mexico Territory, ex-slave First Sergeant Wyatt (Danny Glover) and the Buffalo soldiers arrest Captain Draper and other Texas Rangers for the murder of the Indian children and trespassing on federal protected land, Captain Draper sets the tone with a nigger comment to First Sergeant Wyatt right before they take the Rangers into custody. Captain Draper would not have disrespected at white soldier but this movie takes place shortly after the end of the Civil War, when former slaves were given their freedom.
Mary Crow Dog also writes about the intentional killing of her people this in her book, Lakota Woman. She says, “The whites destroyed the tiyospaye, not accidentally, but as a matter of policy. The close-knit clan, set in its old ways, was a stumbling block in the path of the missionary and government agent, its traditions and customs a barrier to what the white man called “progress” and “civilization”” (Crow Dog p.13). Unfortunately for the white man, they failed to succeed at killing off all of the Native people. When a couple hundred thousand were resilient enough to survive this American Holocaust then the whites were faced with a new dilemma, and that was what to do with the
Montezuma, however, chose to lock up the elders and starve them to death so no one else would hear of this. (p.34) His methods never cease to confuse me. He had a picture drawn by an artist that depicted the same events. “Pale men with white beards riding on beasts”(p.85), they didn’t know they were horses yet. I found this to be shocking and very interested.
According to Crow Dog (1991), “the fight for our land is at the core of our existence, as it has been for the last two hundred years. Once the land is gone, then we are gone too” (p. 10-11). In Chapter 2, Crow Dog talks about the “tiyospaye” or the close-knit clan. She writes about how the Sioux “tiyospaye” included “the extended family group, the basic hunting band, which included grandparents, uncles, aunts, in-laws, and cousins” (1991, p. 13). Crow Dog states that the “tiyospaye” was intentionally destroyed by “wasiÄ?un” or white people who were intent on the assimilation of Native
“Fear Hurts” The character that I have chosen to write about is Augustus Sullivan, or Gus, the guide for General Moustache who directs the American soldiers into battle after they hear that the Native Americans had slain 25 white people. Gus, who is a well-respected white man of the United States Army, is someone who Zits tries to immediately control away from Gus’ intentions, but he is unsuccessful (Alexie, p. 85). Instead, he guides the white people, the same people he had grown to hate, into a Native American camp to slaughter his ancestors. He watches as Indian men, women, and children are obliterated by the men he took to their camp, as people are murdered at ferociously close distance. When all hope for any Indian survivors is lost, a “white soldier races towards Bow Boy” and “without stopping, the white soldier reaches down and picks up Bow Boy.
Three of Phillip’s men were arrested and tried for the murder. Phillip and many other Indians were upset at this because they wanted to deal with the accused over an Indian death on their land. Soon after this incident Phillip had a conference with a man named Easton and he warned Phillip not to go to war with the English. This was probably the last time the Wampanoag people were civil with the English besides their close friends. Tensions between the two are too great at this point.
On June 25, 1876 Lt. Custer was defeated at the Battle of Little Big Horn by the chiefs, Sitting bull, Gall, Crazy Horse and their men. He had attacked their encampment and, as a consequence, lost his entire command of more than 200 men in the battle. In 1889 we were split into six smaller reservations. Being suffocated by the Americans we began to practice the Ghost dance that was thought to extinguish the whites and to bring back the buffalos. Our defeat was next.