With Black Elk's son Ben translating and his own daughter Enid taking notes in short hand, Neihardt wrote of Black Elk's recounting of the Battle of Little Bighorn, the Wounded Knee Massacre and the emergence of the Ghost Dance. ... Black Elk feels the deep despair of his people when soldiers begin confiscating their weapons and horses and moving them into agencies. ... In response, Black Elk joins a Wanekia named Jack Wilson who believed that the Indians may be saved if they perform the Ghost Dance. ... After performing the Ghost Dance, Black Elk has another vision in which the wear...

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The Ghost Dance was created as a result to go backwards in time, to escape the life they do not want to live, with buffalos to hunt, and free lands to roam in. ... As they began to practice this new ritual ghost dance, many white settlers were afraid, and the military were soon investigating the Sioux Indians. ... Nabokov, author of The Native Americans, stated that "The Seventh Cavalry troops, having rounded up a band of Hunkpapa Sioux suspected of potential trouble (fully two-thirds of them were women and children), herded the Indians for the night into a tight group surrounded by five hu...

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Feelings Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a full account on the annihilation of the American Indian from the 1860's to the 1890's. I like the book for its information but I did not enjoy reading it. I appreciated the story from the perspective of the American Indian. From reading Bury My Heart at ...

• Word Count: 1920
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School