Readhat major events led up to the conflict at Wounded Knee?

  • Wounded Knee site contains some first-hand accounts, related links and some controversial information.
  • MSNBC offer this interesting and helpful insight into the background and events leading up to Wounded Knee from the perspective of people involved. Uses direct PBS Documentary The West: Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee: From the Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1891, volume 1, "Eyewitness" account of the massacre at Wounded Knee

Print Resources:

  • Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1971)
  • Jensen, Richard, et. al, Eyewitness at Wounded Knee (1991)
  • Utley, Robert M., The Last Days of the Sioux Nation (1963)
  • Mooney, James, The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 (1991)
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