Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
Summer 2012
Document Type
Article
Citation
Great Plains Quarterly 32:3 (Summer 2012).
Abstract
Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge, the Ghost Dance are all phrases that invoke, perhaps more than any others, the senseless, prolonged acts of atrocity against Native Americans. The story of the events, peoples, and places unfolds on a bleak wintry landscape of the Northern Plains at the end of the nineteenth century. Scholars tell and retell this story, pondering the causes and failed communications, often seeking explanations or rationalizations for the assault on Sioux men, women, and children that took place in South Dakota leaving more than 250 dead. Storytellers, poets, and screenwriters employ the frozen, barren landscapes of the Northern Plains and the terrible history of our government's failed relationship with Native Americans through the lens of the Wounded Knee massacre.
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