Over the last two hundred years, there have been various strategies employed by the U.S. government to disrupt tribal unity and enforce "civilization".  For example, the use of scouts by the government in the 19^th century, land allotments, boarding schools, federal policies of negotiation with selected factions of tribes, and the appointments made by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the administration of reservation policy that resulted in corruption.  Choose two of these strategies and discuss how they contributed directly to the events of the Wounded Knee in the 1970s.  If you had to support a side in this conflict (the traditionals who supported the siege or the non-traditionals who saw this siege as a crime), which would you support and why