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Wounded Knee is a settlement on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota that was the site of two conflicts between Native Americans and the U.S. government—a massacre in 1890 in which 150-300 Lakota were killed by the U.S. Army and an occupation led by the American Indian Movement in 1973.
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Coordinates: 43°08′33″N 102°21′54″W. The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was the deadliest mass shooting in American history, involving nearly three hundred Lakota people shot and killed by soldiers of the United States Army.
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.
Nov 6, 2009 · Wounded Knee, located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, was the site of two conflicts between Native Americans and representatives of the U.S. government, including the U.S....
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Nov 19, 2021 · Wounded Knee became a rallying cry for activists as they pointed out how centuries of land theft, broken treaties, and forced assimilation affected Native Americans.
See the location and details of the 1890 battle between US Cavalry and Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee Creek. Learn about the Ghost Dance religion, the Indian Wars, and the closing of the frontier in North America.
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May 13, 2022 · The slaughter of some 300 Lakota men, women and children by U.S. Army troops in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre marked a tragic coda to decades of violent confrontations between the United...
