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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wounded Knee Survivors Assocation

PAPERS, 1890-1973

(bulk dates, 1971-1973)

Quantity .25 linear ft.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACCESS:                           This collection is open for research without restrictions.

 

PRINTED MATERIAL:    Printed Material is located in Box 1.

 

COPYRIGHT:                    Copyright is held by the University of South Dakota. Permission to reprint material from the papers must be obtained from the Archives and Special Collections of the University of South Dakota.

 

PROCESSED BY:             Anne Hinseth, July 2001

History

The Wounded Knee Survivors Association members are “descendents and relatives of the Sioux Indians that were involved or killed in the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890.”  The Association originated shortly after the 1890 massacre, when survivors began to ask for compensation.  Dewey Beard and Joseph Horn Cloud were two of the organization’s founding members.  Currently, the Association is an independent organization whose goals include preserving and protecting the massacre site from exploitation and administering any memorial erected at the Wounded Knee site.  In 1995 a bill proposing a memorial was put to the United States Congress but the bill has not yet passed, and there is still much conflict about the memorial.

 

 

Scope and Content Note

The Wounded Knee Survivors Association Collection is comprised of three series: Correspondence, Documents and Printed Materials.  All materials contained in this collection are photocopies, some of which are poor in quality.  The source of the originals is unknown. 

The Correspondence series contains two sets of letters.  The 1890-1891 set contains letters from the United States Officers involved with the massacre at Wounded Knee and their accounts of the battle.  The second set of correspondence concerns efforts to erect a monument or memorial to the victims of the 1890 massacre.

The Documents series contains various documents concerning the Oglala Sioux Tribe.  Included are Articles of Incorporation of the Wounded Knee Survivors Association and Report of Investigation into the 1890 Battle at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.

The Printed Materials series contains articles about the Wounded Knee Massacre and the 1973 Occupation of Wounded Knee. 

 

 

Subjects

Wounded Knee Memorial and Historic Site (S.D.)

Wounded Knee (S.D.) -- History -- Indian occupation, 1973

Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890

 

 

Additional Resources

Tribal Historical Research Center, Oglala Lakota College Kyle, SD http://www.olc.edu/olc/archives.html

 

Gonzalez, Mario and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

The politics of hallowed ground : Wounded Knee and the struggle for Indian sovereignty.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1999.

Circulating Collection E99.T34 G65 1999

 

United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs.

Proposed Wounded Knee park and memorial: hearing before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session April 30, 1991, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD. Washington: U.S. G.P.O.: For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs. Congressional Sales Office, 1991.

2^nd Floor Government Documents Y4.In 2/11:S.hrg. 192-193