Teach Your Children About the Injustices Done To The Native American Nations

On This Day: In 1890 the Pine Ridge Indian Agent wrote to Washington requesting more troops to take care of Lakota Ghost Dancers. In February 1890, the US government broke a Lakota treaty by adjusting the Great Sioux Reservation of South Dakota and breaking it up into five smaller reservations. The government was accommodating white homesteaders from the eastern US; in addition, it intended to "break up tribal relationships" and "conform Indians to the white man's ways, peaceably if they will, or forcibly if they must." The Lakota people turned to the Ghost Dance ritual in response, which frightened the supervising agents of the BIA. As a result, thousands of additional U.S. Army troops were deployed to the reservation. Shortly after, on December 28, the Wounded Knee Massacre took place, in which over 153 Lakota were massacred. (Source not given)

Very sad. I am ashamed of how the U.S. government treated the Indian nations. While not many public schools teach much anymore on the subject of the plight of the Native Americans, this is something we cover in depth during our homeschooling experience. Not just because both Alan and I have Native American blood in our ancestry (as close as great-grandmothers), but because it is one of those terrible injustices that should not be forgotten.