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4 days ago · In 1890, because the Native Americans were reluctant to sign a treaty to turn over their lands to white settlers, 500 trained soldiers descended on 350 Indians (120 of whom were women and children) and killed or wounded over 200.
May 10, 2024 · Black Elk (l. 1863-1950) of the Oglala Lakota Sioux was twelve years old at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on 25 June 1876. He gives his account of the famous conflict in the work Black Elk Speaks (1932), and, even at a distance from the event, his memory is supported by earlier narratives.
May 24, 2024 · The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory.
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May 10, 2024 · Russell Means (born November 10, 1939, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.—died October 22, 2012, Porcupine, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation) was a Native American rights activist of Oglala Lakota Sioux descent. Means drew national attention to the mistreatment of Native peoples.
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May 8, 2024 · Sitting Bull. Wounded Knee Massacre, (December 29, 1890), the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. The massacre was the climax of the U.S. Army’s late 19th-century efforts to repress the Plains Indians.
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- Sitting Bull was a war leader and spiritual leader behind whom the Sioux nation united to resist domination by white people. He led an Indian coali...
- In 1885 Sitting Bull was part of Buffalo Bill’s popular Wild West show, which gained him international fame.
- During the spread of the Ghost Dance religious movement, which promised a return of their traditional way of life to the Sioux, the U.S. government...
May 23, 2024 · Robert Redford narrates this documentary about the Pine Ridge Shootout on an Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota. On June 26, 1975, two FBI agents are searching for tribesman Leonard Peltier, wanted in connection with an assault.
3 days ago · Coordinates: 31°35′45″N 96°59′17″W. The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, [5] [6] [7] [8] was the siege by U.S. federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging to the religious cult known as the Branch Davidians between February 28 and April 19, 1993. [9] .
