Wounded Knee:The Ties of Religion and Violence

Injured knee: bond between religion and violence A lot of Sioux Indians (estimated to over 200 people) died on the morning of 29th December 1890 near the injured Nee Creek of Pine Ridge Reserve. Indians are ghost dance religious believers designed by Paiute prophet Wovoka, and are spiritual exits of white Indian repression. Since they did a controversial ghost dance, the US military began to intercept this group of Native Americans.

Religion offers us a bond that connects God and each other. Its widely accepted origin is the Latin "religare", "tie" or "re-tie", which is the same as "ligature" and is used by the doctor to detain the wound. Religion should heal our collective and individual injuries by linking us with God and other people. Religion brings meaning to our lives, answers the questions we are aiming for and provides ethical principles to support us through challenges. "People with great faith to the world - people with religion, sacred connections - ... to convey the collective interests of society, to provide us guidelines for code of conduct and living ethics, we love humans deeply, Elder Jeffrey R. Hollander opposed deep humanity to help strengthen

Wovoka 's vision of his religion to build peaceful resurrection of aboriginal people and ghost dance has died in injured knees. Its weak point is that it can be seen and in some cases a radical movement, seen as a "withdrawal" in which the invaders are destroyed - just like the movement of the American Indians (some of which are "moccasin Attitude ") attention to the unjust and abusive injury of the knee joint II in the BIA system.The idea of" them or us "is through the blood (racial discrimination) and" sovereignty " It is destined to always fail because it only strengthens the BIA system itself including Native American.

By the mid-1970s, the conflict between the government and the Native American occasionally broke out into violence. Noteworthy incidents in the second half of the 20th century were knee injuries in the Pine Ridge Indian Settlement. On February 27, 1973, about 300 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement (AIM) activists were dissatisfied with the tribal government, the federal government failed to exercise the right of the treaty, and the injured knees Managed. Indian activists from across the country joined Pine Ridge, whose occupation symbolized the rise of the American Indian identity and power. Federal law enforcement officials and the National Guard blocked the town and the two sides fought for 71 days. In numerous shooting games, the American shrine was injured and paralyzed. In late April, Cherokee and the local Lakota were shot dead, elder Lakota finished his occupation and made sure that his life is no longer lost.