Wounded Knee Massacre

After the end of civil war, the American society entered a state of reconstruction hoping to reunite the North and South. During that time, many laws and ideas were passed in order to unite the people and bring equality to each civilian. However, the conflict between the political party of the South and North created a disturbance of peace and brought segregation and racism to the country. The first victims to fall to such atrocity were the Africans American. Treated as slaves and subhuman, they continue to struggle and endure hoping for one day for equality between the white and black people. The second victims were the American native, where the white American stole their land and culture for the purpose of money and power. Therefore, we noticed some similarities and difference of the two races in treatment …show more content…
For instance, the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan a white-supremacist organization opposed to the black civil right and encouraged violence against the African American such as killing, raping, and murder. As for the Native American, during the Battle of Wounded Knee they suffered a huge massacre plus the enemy did not distinguish between civilian and armed people resulting into many deaths of children and mothers for example, a 4-month-old Lakota survived because her mother lay down on her during the shooting and kept the child from getting hit. The baby was raised by a general and later put on display in Wild Bill Cody’s “Wild West Show’’. Another similarity is the injustice they both suffered. These two races had to fight in order to get what they want for example a young white and black couple from Virginia had to fight the system in order to be able to get married. As for the Native they fought for their land and culture by doing the “ghost dance’’ hoping to get back their land one