The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

‘From the beginning of the world to the coming of the French, the Savages have never known what it was so solemnly to forbid anything to their people, under any penalty, however slight. They are free people, each of whom considers himself of as much consequence as the others; and they submit to their chiefs only in so far as it pleases them.’24 Equ

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These nations and tribes where therefore savaged in three ways. One was by disease introduced by the Europeans. The second was by the Comanche empire, which also terrorized European settlers. And the third was by the Europeans, who took advantage of the destabilization of the Plains Indians in order to kill the remnants or herd them into places res

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