Black Elk And Red Crow: A Brief Analysis

Black Elk and Red Crow ride back to camp in Pine Ridge, each with a baby he saved from the battleground. The site at Pine Ridge is vacant, the Indians having bolted away. While eating some food that the fugitive Indians left they are shot at. Black Elk says that he desires he had died right then and there with remains of the Indian meat in his mouth. They leave camp to search for their people. Black Elk's mother is joyful she assumed he was dead. Black Elk wants to seek revenge for the annihilation at Wounded Knee and goes out with a Lakota war party the following day. He recalls his vision and acts like the geese in that dream, diving down on the soldiers with his arms outspread, calling like a goose. He is injured, but wants to go back to …show more content…
Black Elk gets news of another attack. He rides out despite the fact that his wound is not totally healed. The Indians attack soldiers at Smoky Earth and takes their horses and then departure into the Badlands. Black Elk wants to form a larger war party and continue the battle, but Red Cloud persuades the Indians to submit because it is a hard winter and he fears the same suffering and deprivation that followed the Battle of Little Big Horn. The submission is about more than the battle. The dream is dead, Black Elk says. Not only Indians died at Wounded Knee; a dream for a nation died. He sees himself as a man who could not enact the vision that was granted to him. So pretty much The Battle at Wounded Knee is mainly viewed as a annihilation, a final effort to eliminate Indians who were showing signs of refreshing. Figures vary but U.S. Troops, using fast guns, killed at least 150 men, women, and children. White families of the soldiers rescued at least two babies from the massacre at Wounded Knee. It is no accident that the battle took place on almost the last day of 1890, the year that the U.S. Census Bureau marked the frontier closed that