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The Ghost Dance At Wounded Knee: Racism In The United States

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In this century of knowledge, being racist only proves how low in society people really are. The knowledge we know of the U.S. forefathers influences Americans behavior and how actions should be taken today. For the knowledge that is known today apathy, understanding all people deserve to be free and justice is the opposite of the way the U.S. forefathers acted. The forefathers have made racism a huge problem in the U.S. Today in life people need to end their ignorant hate. Apathy is the opposite of judge. If someone is apathetic they are showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm or concern.”(1) Someone feels no indifference and shows no impassiveness. If someone is judgemental “they have an opinion or assumption, they form an evaluation …show more content…

The U.S. government restricted the American Indians to a reservation. Then took their lands. “The government forcibly “purchases” nine million acres from the reservation.”(3) They made the American Indians sell their widespread homelands. They were not free to go where they want they had to stay in there reservation. The U.S. government had violated their own U.S. Constitution. During the 1890’s the constitution was only created of the first ten amendments. The U.S. forefathers violated there constitution as the fifth amendment consists that no person will have their life, liberty or property taken away by the federal government without due process of law. A constitution to create America as a free country and the American Indians had no freedom. “Life for the American Indians grew more and more miserable.”(3) The American Indians needed more hope for what has happened to their lifestyles. The American Indians had their own religion, the Ghost Dance. “The Americans had laws to protect their own freedom of religion, but the Ghost Dance frightened them. “The religious frenzy seemed more a portent of rebellion than a broken culture’s desperate attempt to make sense of it’s collapsing world.”(3) U.S. troops were herding the American Indians toward an Army camp. Keeping them captive again and restricting them, they started searching the American Indians and collecting all of their knives. The U.S. troops searched tents, and people themselves. They violated their own constitution. The fourth amendment in the U.S. Constitution protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures and requires that warrants be issued only for probable cause. The U.S. troops had no probable cause to search the American Indians and to take their weapons. As the troops were searching for weapons a man started the ghost dance to give the people in this situation

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