1. BY: Autumn Hefty, Sarah Burrier, Richie Cucura, and Alyssa Tufano
Wounded Knee Massacre
BY: Autumn Hefty, Sarah Burrier, Richie Cucura, and Alyssa Tufano

2. What Happened?
Wounded Knee, located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. An 1890 massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux

3. December 29th 1890
Near Wounded Knee Creek, on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, In South Dakota, USA.
This was the last Battle Of the American Indian War.
The Seventh Calvary was trying to overtake a group of 350 Sioux (Who were cold and starving)

4. Reasons for conflict among the natives, settlers, & government
On December 29, the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry surrounded a band of Ghost Dancers under Big Foot, a Lakota Sioux chief, near Wounded Knee Creek and demanded they surrender their weapons. In the heat of the moment A fight broke out between a soldier and an Indian, and a shot was fired. Because of this a brutal massacre followed
On December 15, 1890, reservation police tried to arrest Sitting Bull, the famous Sioux chief, who they mistakenly believed was a Ghost Dancer, and killed him in the process, increasing the tensions at Pine Ridge.

5. ◦Reasons for conflict among the natives, settlers, & government.
Conflict between the natives and settlers - Many Sioux believed that if they practiced the Ghost Dance and rejected the ways of the white man, the gods would create the world anew and destroy all non-believers, including non-Indians
The Ghost Dance spiritual movement, which taught that Indians had been defeated and confined to reservations because they had angered the gods by abandoning their traditional customs.

6. Major Players in the massacre
The Seventh Calvary
The Sioux
Major Samuel M. Whitside
Colonel James W. Forsyth
500 well-armed cavalry troops carried out the slaughter
Local Chief Big Foot
40 White soldiers and more than 300 of the Indians including women and children died

7. Impact on Western Settlement
Some of the Indians moved off the land and tried to adapt to the American Way of life
American Citizenship was granted to Native Americans who accepted 160 acres of land
Once land was distributed to Native Americans, any surplus was sold to white settlers with the profits of those sales went to the Native American Schools

8. Relationship Between the U.S. and Government
The American Indian Movement was founded in 1968 to stop police harassment of the Natives
Native Americans were then forced onto reservations by soldiers
Natives did not trust the U.S. Government at all
The Government felt that they needed to contain the Native Americans

9. The End !