Wounded Knee Research Paper

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Wounded Knee: Preserving Tradition and Fighting for Equality A common misconception regarding cultures and ethnic groups is that all individuals belonging to one share the same opinions – however, this could not be further from the truth. Native Americans in North America are one example; they should not be regarded to a homogeneous group because they are like any other culture, race, or religion composed of individual people with his or her own set of beliefs. The occupation of Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, was a result of escalating tensions between members of the same tribe that came to a breaking point in 1973. Problems arose on the reservation between the more traditional population, the Oglala Sioux, and their authoritarian tribal leader, Richard Wilson. …show more content…
Native Americans from across the United States came to Wounded Knee to be part of what they longed to be a new start for their people (WSR 1). Carter Camp, a Ponca, explained the importance of the immense media coverage: “If they [the U.S. government] came and killed all of us, it would be recorded and it would be seen by the world where the 1890 massacre wasn’t. And if they didn’t, if they decided, you know, that that media was there so they don’t want to murder all of us, well, then the media is there to tell our side of the story” (WSR 12). Madonna Thunder Hawk, a Lakota, agreed with the use of the media at Wounded Knee by explaining, “We needed to let the rest of the world know what was going on. Two states over, they had no idea about Indian people. We were just invisible. We were the ones that kicked the doors open on the Indian issue and let the world see” (WSR 23). When the U.S. government, under the orders of the Department of Justice official Kent Frizzell, forced the media to leave the reservation in the beginning of May, AIM slowly lost their
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