Reference no: EM133707668
Questions:
1.) What was the FBI director's response to the hostage situation?
2.) what suprised South Dakota Senators George McGovern and James Abourezk once they arrived in the Pine Ridge?
3.) why was AIM controversial? What hight profile publicity had the group generated prior to 9173 and pine Ridge?
4.) after their failure to impeach dick wilson, oglala dissidents sought AIM's help. What incident in nearby Custer caught their attention?
5.) after exhausting all legal options to dick wilson's harassment, why did the dissidents turn to AIM? What was AIM's motto?
6.) how did female Oglala leaders spark action on the decision to seize Wounded Knee? What did tribal elder fools crow tell the community?
7.) how did the U.S. government respond to the protests? Who did protestors demand to see?
8.) why was the white house distracted? How did this affect the negotiation process?
9.) what was the third force in addition to Indian activists-and fedral marshals? What did this third element do to complicate efforts?
10.) what military experience did the protesters have inside the village?
11.) what treaty did Lakota chiefs sign in 1868? Was the treaty upheld by the U.S. government?
12.) what happened at Wounded Knee in the winter of 1890 and how did the dissidents gain strength from its memory?
13.) how did the dissidents use the media to protect abd bolster their cause?
14.) what was the nation's response to the standoff?
15.) after the indian wars, what U.S. strategy was used to assimilate Native children?
16.) what constraints did the U.S. government place on the over 100,000 children sent to nearby 500 schools scattered across the U.S.?
17.) what did the de-Indianization program do to families?
18.) what ultimatum by the U.S. government led the dissidents to make preparations for a last stand? What happened?
19.) what happened when the roadblocks were lifted? What was the significance of the medal Fools Crow wore to the U.N.?
20.) what did the chiefs and medicine men introduce to the protesters who came from other places and who were disconnected from Indian traditions?
21.) how did the indian movement differ from other political movements of the time?
22.) what programs did the Federal government introduce in the 1950s and and 1960s to solve the indian "problem"?
23.) what were Native peoples promised and what did they actually receive?
24.) what unanticipated result did the relocation program produce?
25.) what tactics did new U.S. government negotiator Kent Frizzel employ?
26.) what event brought renewed attention to the standoff?
27.) why did a negotiated deal collapse?
28.) what were the conditions at Wounded Knee following the collapse of the deal? What pressures were U.S. officials under to end the occupation?
29.) how did the U.S. government destabilize the occupation?
30.) what event caused the end of the siege?
31.) what was the "reign of terror" after the siege?
32.) according to Charlotte Black Elk, what is the struggle of Indian people in the 21st century?