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Before Watching:
Read and discuss the historical background of the Wounded Knee Massacre.
- What major events led up to the conflict at Wounded Knee?
- Discuss the events leading up to the conflict from the perspective of both
the white military personnel and the Native American people. The MSNBC web
site below is especially helpful for this.
Web Resources:
- Web site for the SD Public Broadcasting documentary Lost
Bird of Wounded Knee.
- This Wounded
Knee site contains some first-hand accounts, related links and some
controversial information.
- MSNBC
offer this interesting and helpful insight into the background and events
leading up to Wounded Knee from the perspective of people involved. Uses
direct quotes from people such as Black Elk, Comanding General Nelson A.
Miles, Philip F. Wells (interpreter for General Forsythe), and others.
- From the PBS
Documentary The West: Lakota Accounts of the Massacre
at Wounded Knee: From the Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for
1891, volume 1, pages 179-181. Extracts from verbatim stenographic report of
council held by delegations of Sioux with Commissioner of Indian Affairs, at
Washington, February 11, 1891.
- "Eyewitness"
account of the massacre at Wounded Knee
Print Resources:
- Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1971)
- Jensen, Richard, et. al, Eyewitness at Wounded Knee (1991)
- Utley, Robert M., The Last Days of the Sioux Nation (1963)
- Mooney, James, The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
(1991)
- Flood, Renee Sansom, Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota (1998)
After Watching:
Ask students to examine again their understanding of the events leading up to
the Wounded Knee massacre.
- Has your understanding of the two sides of this conflict changed? How?
- How would you explain this event to a person who had never heard of it?
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