Let Us Practice ACTIVITY 2: PROVE IT Directions: Read the text and supply the evidence by filling out the table below to prove the claim or opinion of the author. Terror of Wounded Knee The Indian activists who have taken hostages and staged a violent replay of the "battle" of Wounded Knee are engaged in a dangerous game. If the first battle was a massacre, the second is also a crime. Certainly, it will not help the Indians' cause with the great majority of Americans. We have had too much experience in this country with those who fantasize with high-powered rifles and who dramatize themselves with violence against others. After a decade of riots, mass murders, and assassinations, Americans no longer are moved to sympathy by twisted souls who believe that they can win votes with gun-powder and extortion The activists in this case have made the usual demands and already some politicians are talking of acceding to those demands. Let us hope that this line of official acquiescence to blackmail will not be followed.
