THIS DAY IN HISTORY – U.S. Army massacres Indians at Wounded Knee

 

On this day in 1890, in the final chapter of America’s long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

Throughout 1890, the U.S. government worried about the increasing influence at Pine Ridge of 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. 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. 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.

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On December 29, the U.S. Army’s 7th cavalry surrounded a band of Ghost Dancers under the Sioux Chief Big Foot near Wounded Knee Creek and demanded they surrender their weapons. As that was happening, a fight broke out between an Indian and a U.S. soldier and a shot was fired, although it’s unclear from which side. A brutal massacre followed, in which it’s estimated almost 150 Indians were killed (some historians put this number at twice as high), nearly half of them women and children. The cavalry lost 25 men.

The conflict at Wounded Knee was originally referred to as a battle, but in reality it was a tragic and avoidable massacre. Surrounded by heavily armed troops, it’s unlikely that Big Foot’s band would have intentionally started a fight. Some historians speculate that the soldiers of the 7th Cavalry were deliberately taking revenge for the regiment’s defeat at Little Bighorn in 1876. Whatever the motives, the massacre ended the Ghost Dance movement and was the last major confrontation in America’s deadly war against the Plains Indians.

Conflict came to Wounded Knee again in February 1973 when it was the site of a 71-day occupation by the activist group AIM (American Indian Movement) and its supporters, who were protesting the U.S. government’s mistreatment of Native Americans. During the standoff, two Indians were killed, one federal marshal was seriously wounded and numerous people were arrested.

 

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overthecliff
overthecliff

Once again, we see that violence does indeed settle things. It may not be right but that is the way it is. Above all else be armed.

Anonymous
Anonymous

” 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 found out that they were wrong.

The hard way.

Or maybe that they were right but their “gods” had a different vision for the new world than they did.

In the end, we all end up paying the price for what we believe in spite of the reality around us showing us something different (and generally try to use god as a tool to accomplish our will over others instead of seeking after his will and working to accomplish that instead).

unit472
unit472

The story of the ‘Ghost Dancer’ is an old one. Primitive people were told that some ‘magic’ or ‘god’ would protect them if they rose up against the dominant power only to find it didn’t.

Now there is but one large primitive tribe left on earth. Mohammedans and, true to form, they have their ‘Ghost Dancers’, men who believe they can enter heaven by committing an atrocity on earth. So far these modern Ghost Dancers have not had their Wounded Knee so they persist but a Wounded Knee will eventually come and it will probably be in the form of a mushroom cloud, plague, famine or all three.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Comparing a broken desperate people looking for any way out ,of a hell on earth,to Isis,what a crock of shit.If anything it was the US military that was like Isis,for the native populations.When the USA is overrun with third worlders and the “white people” replaced by a dominant power ,will future generations look back and say they the whites were only backward fucks.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Other than your post, where does the term “ISIS” appear in this discussion or the posts regarding it?

Anonymous
Anonymous

My mistake,I should have said Mohammadans,but the Mohammadans cult of Isis is the one of committing atrocious to enter heaven,it was the Europeans who brought middle eastern religions to the Americas,the natives just wanted to be left alone .The article is fine but the post comparing natives to dead wish Mohammadans annoyed me.

Angus
Angus

Everytime ANony posts a devil gets a pitchfork.

Old Guy

A grown man knows the world he lives in. Power is claimed only by force. And force only respects equal or greater force. Doesn’t matter what our “feelings” are. What is…..is.

CCRider
CCRider

My roommate in college in Oklahoma was a Chickasaw Indian and had a poster on our wall of Geronimo with the caption: Custer Had It Coming. Damn sure did.

daddysteve
daddysteve

Miles Mathis has a little bit on the geneology of Custer.

http://mileswmathis.com/custer.pdf

Hagar
Hagar

Interesting…first time I’ve been introduced to the Little Big Horn as a false flag. Fun read for me. I’ve read and heard so many different accounts of the last stand that I know not what to believe. Since history is written by the victors one can only ponder the truth, or at least some of it.

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

Old Guy- Well that attitude is all nice until the fat lady sings at your house. Being part Injun, I can say that the niggas got nothing to complain about. Read about “The Trail of Tears” sometime and picture yourself in their situation, those WERE my peeps.

Anonymous
Anonymous

At any point in history you can find stories like that about defeated peoples.

It seems to be a part of unrestrained human nature to do such things. The enemy never seems to be fully human or deserve the treatment you would want for yourself while you are fighting them or after you conquer them if they are still in your way.

The Indians were absolutely mistreated by their conquerors, but let’s face it: They had a lousy immigration policy and poor border control to start with.

Maybe we should learn a lesson from them concerning our own borders.

unit472
unit472

It’s what happens when a technologically more advanced civilization comes into contact with a primitive one. The advanced civilization has no time for the beliefs and ‘culture’ of the primitives and goes about its business. The primitives can either adapt or get run over but their way of life is gone.

The American Indians were slow to adapt and got run over but if it hadn’t been Europeans the Asians would have gotten here and the same thing would have happened a couple of hundred years later.

BB

The natives you talk about so would have cut your dick and then your scalp off quicker than you can bat your eyes.They were fucking savages.All of you should read the real history of the Western Indians instead of this politically correct bullshit you call history.

daddysteve
daddysteve

Who introduced scalping to the native americans?

Old Guy

Given the number of thumbs down in the previous article about antisemitism I imagine more than a few at TBP believe it was the jews that introduced scalping to the native americans.

Angus
Angus

Daddy:

Probably those Indian tribes that practised cannibalism.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The French colonists during the French and Indian wars from what I’ve heard, but I doubt anyone really knows definitively.

It was used to pay bounties for enemy deaths by various sides in the early conflicts of our country.

But the French doing it makes sense, they are the cause of all the world’s problems.

General
General

The real reason the Indians were wiped out had little to do how they were treated by the European settlers per se. They were mostly wiped out by infectious diseases that the immigrants brought, that they had no resistance to. Specifically measles, scarlet fever, typhoid, typhus, influenza, pertussis (whooping cough), tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria, and sexually transmitted diseases.

Image 90% of your population is wiped out due to multiple diseases. How well are you going to stop any immigration or invasion?

overthecliff
overthecliff

If you play” cowboys and indians” and you don’t use more force than the other guy, you are the indian.

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