American Experience: What was the occupation of Wounded Knee? An episode in the PBS American Experience series on Native American experience tells the story of the 1973 uprising on the Pine Ridge Reservation, land where the US Army massacred hundreds of Lakota men, women and children. This series includes episodes on the governments forced relocation and education of Native people.
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The Lady of Cofitachequi: Gender and Political Power Among Native Southerners from South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times. Volume 1
The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents UNC Press, 2005
South Carolina the Portal of Native American Genocide in Southeast
The Indians’ New World: The Catawba Experience, from The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Oct 1984)
Something Cloudy in Their Looks: The Origins of the Yamasee War Reconsidered, from The Journal of American History, Vol. 90, No. 1 (June, 2003)
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Black Elk Speaks is a 1932 book by John G. Neihardt, an American poet and writer, who relates the story of Black Elk (1863–1950), an Oglala Lakota medicine man. Black Elk spoke in Lakota and Black Elk’s son, Ben Black Elk, who was present during the talks, translated his father’s words into English. Neihardt made notes during these talks which he later used as the basis for his book. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres. The book has been criticized for inaccurate representations of Lakota culture and beliefs but remains appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota life, as a history of a Native nation, or as an enduring spiritual testament.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, an iconic Indian History of the American West, is a 1970 non-fiction book by American writer Dee Brown. It explores the history of American expansionism in the American West in the late nineteenth century and its devastating effects on the indigenous peoples living there. Brown describes Native Americans’ displacement through forced relocations and years of warfare waged by the United States federal government as part of a continuing effort to destroy the cultures, religions, and ways of life of Native American peoples. Wounded Knee was the site of the last major attack by the US Army on Native Americans in 1890, on what is now the Pine Ridge Reservation.