The Devastating Battle of Wounded Knee

The battle of Wounded Knee was a tragic event in United States history marking this as a period in time when Native American people were not accepted as Americans and were outlawed the rights established to the white population. The Lakota Sioux Nation and its people were not allowed a place in white society. Their land, which acknowledged as there's by the treaty of Laramie was broken and taken from them, lives were taken, and rights were denied. Wounded Knee was a crucial event in the growing hostility between the Sioux Indians and the United States government. The repercussions of Wounded Knee are motionless and are reflected in the twenty-first century. This has brought long term and short term social, cultural effects on the Lakota Sioux Nation. The Dawes Act and the 1952 Termination Policy could in no circumstances even be related or compared to the horrendous and catastrophic levels as the battle of Wounded Knee.…