The events leading up to the Wounded Knee Massacre need to only be prefaced that tension was running high due to the murder of Sitting Bull on December 15 which caused some of the Miniconjou Sioux Indians and Hunkpapa Sioux Indians to leave the reservations and head toward the Badlands
<span>On December 28, the 7th U. S. Cavalry had arrested a village led by Big Foot of the Hunkpapa Sioux Indians. The count arrested was 230 Sioux Indian women and children with only 120 Sioux Indian men. Early in the morning on December 29th 1890, four Hotchkiss guns were aimed on the Wounded Knee Village. 500 Cavalry Troops under the command of Colonel James W. Forsyth began the process of disarming the Indians of any guns, knives, axes and stakes which could be construed to be a weapon. These were placed in a guarded pile </span>
<span>No one knows what caused the disturbance, no one claims the first shot, the Wounded Knee Massacre began fiercely with the Hotchkiss guns raining fragmentation shells into the village at a combined rate of 200 or more rounds a minute. The 500 well armed Cavalry Troopers were well positioned using crossing fire to methodically carry out what is know as the Wounded Knee Massacre </span>
<span>Almost immediately most of the Sioux Indian men were killed. A few Sioux Indians mustered enough strength barehanded to kill 29 soldiers and wound 39 more. The bravery of these people was to no avail for as long as an Indian moved, the guns kept firing. Unarmed Sioux Indian Women and children were Mercilessly Massacred. A few ran as far as three miles only to be chased by the long knives of the Cavalry and put to death </span>
<span>Of the original 350 Indians one estimate stated that only 50 survived. Almost all historical statistics report over 200 Indians being killed on that day but government figures only reported the Indian dead as 64 men, 44 women and girls, and 18 babies. All of the bodies were buried in one communal grave :)</span>
The white man's burden represents the Shift from isolation to imperialism in the United States.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The white man's burden is a poem by Rudyard Kipling which represents the United States shift from Isolation i.e keeping to themselves and not letting others interfere in their matter to Imperialism which means expanding their influence throughout the world through peace and power.
Thus, the white man's burden here means the struggles and problems faced by the country with the coming of imperialism.
Answer:
The objective of the Dawes Act was to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society by annihilating their cultural and social traditions. As a result of the Dawes Act, over ninety million acres of tribal land were stripped from Native Americans and sold to non-natives.
