THE MASSACRE AT WOUNDED KNEE

Buffalo Bill, Capt. Baldwin, Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Capt. Moss, and others, on horseback, on battlefield of Wounded Knee.

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"The opening of the fight at Wounded Knee", engraved illustration by Frederic Remington. Appeared in
Harper’s Weekly, 1891.
        

    
   
Wounded Knee, 1940

On December 29, 1890, in one of the final chapters of America’s
long Indian wars
, the U.S. Cavalry killed 146 Lakota Indians at
Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

The conflict at Wounded Knee was originally referred to as a
battle, but in reality it was a tragic and avoidable massacre.

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A depiction of the Ghost Dance.

Wounded Knee Massacre

U.S. Army massacres Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee | December 29, 1890 | HISTORY

US Attorney General Eric Holder laying a wreath at the site of the Wounded Knee Memorial
US Attorney General Eric Holder laying a wreath at the
site of the Wounded Knee Memorial.

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