We started doing our National History Day topic on the American Indian Movement because of Dylan’s grandfather’s connection with them. After doing some research on the topic we became interested in the events of Wounded Knee, which the American Indian Movement had a big part in. Rather then have our topic be the American Indian Movement and our focus on Wounded Knee we changed our topic to Wounded Knee. We first researched our topic at Sonoma State University, where we later returned to do more research. We also searched at our local libraries and on-line. We also interviewed Dylan’s grandfather, Robert Livingston, who was part of the Wounded Knee “cleanup” committee.

We had meetings through out the time we were working on History Day. At these meetings we consolidated the information we had found since the previous meeting. We also worked on our bibliography at these meetings, adding whatever sources we had found to use.

In January we started work on our actual site. We used Macromedia Dreamweaver to put the site together. It was constructed at both of our houses over a period of a few weeks. We used our various resources to get media for our pages. One example of this is the song “Tom Toms of Wounded Knee,” on our first page, is from our interview with Robert Livingston.

Our topic relates to all three aspects of the theme: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform in History. Wounded Knee 1890 marked the end of the Native American’s resistance to the government’s forced reform. The revolution that took place in 1973 at Wounded Knee was the Native Americans reaction to the U.S. government’s hand in tribal affairs.