On the morning of December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee creek in South Dakota, the U.S. army attempted to disarm a group of Sioux Indians. On that day, in a very tense atmosphere, it took only the firing of one gun to begin the brutal killing of most of 350 Indian men, women, and children. It has been called both a battle and a massacre, but what Wounded Knee has come to symbolize is a clash of cultures and a failed government-Indian policy. Its effects are still felt today.
Since its beginnings, the United States government had treated Native Americans as independent people and used treaties as the legal basis for most of its relationships with them. Between 1778 and 1871, Congress had approved more than 370 treaties
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