The Impact of the Massacre at Wounded Knee
David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, talked about the events of the massacre at Wounded Knee and its significance.
Description
David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, talked about the events of the massacre at Wounded Knee and its significance.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- According to Mr. Treuer, why was 1890 seen as a time of great change?
- Describe what happened at Wounded Knee.
- What was the Ghost Dance movement? Why was this an attractive movement at the time?
- What was the reaction to the massacre at Wounded Knee?
Additional Resources
Participants
Vocabulary
- Calvary
- Fundamentalist
- Ghost Dance
- Great Plains
- Hotchkiss Guns
- Indian
- Lakota
- Native American
- Red Cloud
- Sitting Bull
- Wounded Knee