Wounded Knee Massacre: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1147 and S. 2900 ... February 5 and 6, 1976 |
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7th Cavalry arms Army arrest arrived Bad Lands battalion Bennett Big Foot Big Foot's band bucks Bull's bullets camp Capt Captain Cherry Creek Cheyenne River Cheyenne River Agency Colonel Forsyth command Commissioner of Indian Congress Custer December 29 Department direction disarm Distance marched Eighth Cavalry fight fire Fort Keogh Fort Meade Fort Yates ghost dance Godfrey Government Grand River horses hostile Hotchkiss guns INDIAN AFFAIRS Indian Agent Indian police Indian scouts Keogh Kicking Bear killed Lieut Lieutenant Major Whitside massacre Messiah miles military November officers orders Pine Ridge Agency R. V. BELT rations ravine reservation respectfully rifle Rosebud Secretary Senator ABOUREZK sent Seventh Cavalry Short Bull shot Sioux Indians Sitting Bull soldiers squaws Standing Rock Sumner surrender telegram tent tepees told troops United States Indian Utley wagon warriors Washington WKIR women and children Wounded Knee Creek WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE
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Page 443 - I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.
Page 74 - States, to admit amongst them ; and the United States now solemnly agrees that no persons except those herein designated and authorized so to do, and except such officers, agents, and employees of the government as may be authorized to enter upon Indian reservations in discharge of duties enjoined by law, shall ever be permitted to pass over, settle upon, or reside in the territory described in this article...
Page 328 - Union. // a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it he will find it, and that is what the Indians are doing now when they ask you to give them the things that were promised them in the past; and I do not consider that they should be treated like beasts, and that is the reason I have grown up with the feelings I have.
Page 409 - ... wounded should come forth and they would be safe. Little boys who were not wounded came out of their places of refuge, and as soon as they came in sight a number of soldiers surrounded them and butchered them there. Of course we all feel very sad about this affair. I stood very loyal to the government...
Page 73 - ... set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the Indians herein named, and for such other friendly tribes or individual Indians as from time to time they may be willing, with the consent of the United States, to admit amongst them...
Page 324 - The women as they were fleeing with their babes were killed together, shot right through, and the women who were very heavy with child were also killed. All the Indians fled in these three directions, and after most all of them had been killed a cry was made that all those who were not killed or wounded should come forth and they would be safe. Little boys who were not wounded came out of their places of refuge, and as soon as they came in sight a number of soldiers surrounded them and butchered...
Page 409 - The action of the commanding officer, in my judgment at the time, and I so reported was most reprehensible. The disposition of his troops was such that in firing upon the warriors they fired directly toward their own lines and also into the camp of the women and children, and I have regarded the whole affair as most unjustifiable and worthy of the severest condemnation.
Page 74 - The United States hereby agrees and stipulates that the country north of the North Platte river and east of the summits of the Big Horn mountains shall be held and considered to be unceded Indian territory...
Page 337 - I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am a chief. My heart is red and sweet, and I know it is sweet, because whatever passes near me puts out its tongue to me; and yet you men have come here to talk with us, and you say you do not know who I am. I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit has chosen any one to be the chief of this country it is myself.
Page 71 - When the firing began, of course the people who were standing immediately around the young man who fired the first shot were killed right together, and then they turned their guns, Hotchkiss guns, etc., upon the women who were in the lodges standing there under a flag of truce, and of course as soon as they were fired upon they fled, the men fleeing in one direction and the women running in two different directions. So that there were three general directions in which they took flight.