Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Battle Of The
Wounded Knee
- Happened in 1890.
- The massacre at the wounded knee?
- Revenge for Custer
- By 1900, Indian land had been reduced
from 155 million acres to 78 million.
- Tried to enforce farming
on the Indians.
- Mass slaughter of the buffalo.
- 1890 - Indians on the reservation
at Wounded Knee Creek
- Wovoka told the Indians that if they danced
the Ghost Dance the white's would
disappear and the dead Indians would
return. The Indians were desperate.
- At the Pine Ridge reservation in
Wounded Knee Creek, South
Dakota, soldiers were sent in to
arrest the Ghost Dancers. It got out
of control and Chief Big Foot + 153
men, women and children were shot.
- By 1890 Manifest Destiny had been achieved.