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Name________________________Unit 4: Closing the FrontierWounded Knee Massacre Web Quest

1. Save as a copy of this assignment into your US History folder

2. Visit the website: http://www.woundedkneemuseum.org/

3. Click on the teepee labeled Exhibits 4. As you navigate through the museum, answer the questions below for a better understanding of this critical event.

5. Finally, return to our Moodle page and submit your completed assignment on TurnItIn.com Click on the black portion of the medicine wheel: Smothering the Seven Fires1. What treaty established boundaries around Lakota territory for the first time?

The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 established boundaries around Lakota Territory for the first time.2. How was the Red Cloud War ended?

The U.S. Government agreed to abandon the Bozeman Trail and three forts. The Lakota secured their right for their hunting grounds along with the Powder River.3. What happened in 1875 that triggered war?

The U.S. Government triggered war by ordering the Lakota to abandon the Powder River hunting grounds. Gold was also discovered in the Black Hills, causing white miners to invade the area, breaking the 1868 treaty.4. How was the 1868 treaty broken?

Gold was discovered in the Black Hills, causing white miners to invade the area. The governments response was to annex the Black Hills.5. What sacred land was taken away from the people in 1876?

The Powder River Hunting grounds.Click red portion of the medicine wheel: Wovokas Ghost Dance6. What white name did Wovoka take? How long did he live in the white world?

He took the name Jack Wilson and he lived in the white world until he was 30 and his visions began.7. What did Wovokas first vision tell him to do?

His first vision told him to preach that people were all brothers and must not fight or steal but should be good to each other.8. When did Wovoka have his Great Vision?

He had his Great Vision during a solar eclipse on New Years Day in 1889.9. What happened at the Dance of the Spirits?

Men and women danced together singing and dancing with hands joined in a peculiar way, knuckle to knuckle going round and round, keeping it up for a long time.10. What new interpretations were added to Wovokas message?

Wovoka had seen the Son of God, who showed Wovoka the scars from His crucifixion, proof that the whites had rejected Him. He was now the God of the Indians and would punish the whites for their injustices.

In the spring of 1891, He would return to bury the whites under a landslide, resurrect all the Indian dead, and bring back the bison and other game.11. In what ways did whites respond to the dance?

They thought the dancing signaled the possibility of a Lakota uprising and they petitioned the federal government for protection with increasing urgency.Click on the yellow portion of the medicine wheel Words that Killed 12. What role did the newspapers and journalists have in this event?

They were eager to find evidence of Lakota treachery and when they couldnt find any, they made them up and editors published them. The journalists portrayed the Indians as the bad guys and as it spread, The Chicago Daily Tribune began newspaper war on October 28, 1890.Click on More ExhibitsClick on the black portion of the medicine wheel Wounded Knee Encampment.

13. Describe the scene at the Wounded Knee encampment on December 28, 1890:The Lakota were surrounded by white soldiers and forced to set up camp at Wounded Knee. They set up camp in the late afternoon and whites issued rations of coffee, sugar, hard tack, and bacon to the band for an evening meal. The rest of the camp extended to the base of a small hill, a distance of 250 yards. The cavalry set up camp about 100 yards northeast of the Indian camp. The whites send special guards to make sure that the Lakota had no chances to slip away in the night.Click on the red portion of the medicine wheel Peaceful Mornings

14. Using the information and quotes provided contrast the two perspectives (Lakota people and US military) of what happened on December 29, 1890. How are they different? What factors do you believe played a role in the confrontation that resulted?

The Lakota were scared that the whites were going to do something bad to them while the whites thought that the Lakota didnt sense any evil coming from them. Theyre different in the sense that the whites thought of the Lakota as ignorant while the Lakota were almost certain that the whites were going to cause them harm.

The factors that played a role in the confrontation that resulted was the weapons search. The whites demanded that the Lakota dropped all their weapons and even after they did, whites did a physical search to see if they carried any weapons. The whites tried to take the rifle of a deaf man, who didnt want to give it up and during the struggle to take the rifle away, the rifle went off.Summary

15. Record 3 things you learned about Wounded Knee from your explorations:

The whites forcefully removed the Lakota from their land and took it for themselves.The Lakota actually wanted to get along with the whites, but the whites were too high and mighty for that.

To get the government to get rid of the Lakota Indians, white journalists and newspapers published headlines of Lakota treachery that never happened.