Description

In the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation on January 7, 1891, Lieutenant Edward Casey (the final white knight to die in the Indian Wars) was assassinated by Lakota player Plenty Mounts. Four nights later tranquil Lakota predators were ambushed by rancher Pete Culbertson and his siblings. In accordance with frontier justice of your day, Plenty Horses might have been summarily hanged and the Culbertsons never delivered to trial, but public view, swollen from the massacre at Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890, resulted in Plenty Horses and the Culbertsons being tried in civilian courts.  In showing the remarkable story of those activities and their effect over the nation, In the Shadow of Wounded Knee exhibits America in the prompt it was moving from the wild frontier country right into a modern nation and the way the price of creating the country was compensated not only in human lifestyles but with the sacrifice of human desires and desires and the continuing future of whole indigenous ethnicities.