AIM 1973 (Wounded Knee)
By: Janneth Ballesteros
Wounded Knee
This brings us back to the incident of 1973. As stated in school.eb the AIM leaders, Russel Means and Dennis Banks said they, " vowed to stay until the U.S. government met AIM demands for a change in tribal leaders, a review of all Indian treaties, and a U.S. Senate investigation of the treatment of Indians in general." The event that took place was considered a siege. A siege is defined on dictionary.com as ¨any prolonged or persistent effort to overcome resistance.¨ This took place in a 71-day span and the Indians finally surrendered.
Unfair government
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Natural Resources
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Leaders
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What ways did the government show they were unfair towards the Sioux Indians?
Annotated Bibliography
This source was valuable in my smore because it spoke briefly about the event that occurred in 1890 and did not focus only on that. My smore is on the 1973 incident,so this article gave more information on that. I also feel that the length of the article was great because it was not too long and not too short.
Dudley, William. Native Americans: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 1998. Print.
Ewen, Alexander, and Jeffrey Wollock. "American Indian Movement (AIM)."Encyclopedia of the American Indian in the Twentieth Century. Facts On File, 2014.American Indian History Online. Web. 21 Sept. 2015. <http://online.infobase.com/HRC/LearningCenter/Details/6?articleId=190231>."
This source was one of my favorites because of how detailed it was. It gave me some insight on what FBI agents were doing at the time and it was a lot more specific for this event. I feel that that adds value to this source and it is also very credible since it comes from the library resources. A limitation that I found was that it was a bit too long for what I was looking for, but overall I think it was pretty good.
Waldman, Carl. "Wounded Knee." Word Dance: The Language of Native American Culture. 1994. American Indian History Online. Web. 21 Sept. 2015. <http://online.infobase.com/HRC/Search/Details/186129?q=Wounded Knee>.
This source came from the same publishers as the one above. This one was great for me to get more background info on the first incident that occurred in South Dakota. However, I was focusing on the incident of 1973, so this one was a limitation for me. I used this source to better understand what happened before. I do think it is valuable if you're focusing on the first event and it is short, so it is a quick read.
Wounded Knee." Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2015. Web. 21 Sep. 2015. <http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/340816>.
This was the first source I looked at, so I thought that it was useful. Its a valuable source because just like the other ones it is a shorter read. I think that it was brief enough in order to get a good glimpse of what happened. As for a limitation I don't think it has one.