Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scanlon, a junior and an Army veteran, has been out with a knee injury, and his return at 190 pounds should give Harvard a definite advantage in the heavier divisions, where Cornell is not particularly strong. Scanlon contributed two key wins in Harvard's successful performance in the Virginia Quadrangular in December...
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE by Dee Brown. 487 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...nearly 500 troopers of the U.S. 7th Cavalry opened fire on a bedraggled band of Minneconjou Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, S. Dak. When the last carbine bullet splattered to a stop and the final Hotchkiss shell exploded, more than half the 350 Indian men, women and children were dead. Many were slaughtered as they lay wounded in their tents. Others were hunted down in the surrounding gullies. The massacre concluded with a heavy snowfall that shrouded the dead and closed one of the most distorted periods in U.S. history...
After Wounded Knee, the Plains Indians never again offered serious armed resistance to the manifestors of American destiny. Decades of worthless treaties, search-and-destroy missions, pacification programs, enforced relocations and free-fire zones ended there. The remnants of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Apache and other tribes were concentrated on unfertile, game-poor reservations, where they were bilked by corrupt agents and died of disease, malnutrition and melancholia...
...librarian at the University of Illinois, now attempts to balance the account. With the zeal of an IRS investigator, he audits U.S. history's forgotten set of books. Compiled from old but rarely exploited sources plus a fresh look at dusty Government documents. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee tallies the broken pronrses 'tnd treaties, the provocations, massacres. discriminatory policies and condescending diplomacy...