Undergraduate Research Journal Volume 20 Article 10 2016 Subaltern Resistance and Wounded Knee, 1973 Nathan Sell University of Nebraska at Kearney Follow this and additional works at: https://openspaces.unk.edu/undergraduate-research-journal Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Sell, Nathan (2016) "Subaltern Resistance and Wounded Knee, 1973," Undergraduate Research Journal: Vol. 20 , Article 10. Available at: https://openspaces.unk.edu/undergraduate-research-journal/vol20/iss1/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Activity at OpenSPACES@UNK: Scholarship, Preservation, and Creative Endeavors. It has been accepted for inclusion in Undergraduate Research Journal by an authorized editor of OpenSPACES@UNK: Scholarship, Preservation, and Creative Endeavors. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Subaltern Resistance and Wounded Knee, 1973 Nathan Sell American Indian resistance to Euro-American expansionism has long been considered under the purview of “American history.” This subsumption of indigenous perspectives within the limits and boundaries of an “American history” represents a, if not the, dominant raison d'être for considering indigenous histories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As such, indigenous history under this perspective is potentially seen as useful only in that it holds explanatory value in the context of an American history. No single event in the past four-hundred plus years shatters that aforementioned account