At Wounded Knee, South Dakota, a Native…

December 1890 CE

At Wounded Knee, South Dakota, a Native American camp, the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment tries on     December 29, 1890, to disperse the non-violent "Ghost-Dance", which has promised to usher in a new era of power and freedom to Native Americans but is feared as a potential rallying tool for violent rebellion by some in the U.S. government.

Shooting begins, and one hundred and fifty-three Lakota Sioux and twenty-five troops are killed; about one hundred and fifty flee the scene.

This is the last tribe to be defeated and confined to a reservation as well as the beginning of the decline of both the American Indian Wars and the American frontier.

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Wounded Knee Shannon South Dakota United States View →

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Lakota, aka Teton Sioux (Amerind tribe) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → South Dakota, State of (U.S.A.) View →

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Indian Wars in Upper North America View → Wounded Knee Massacre View →

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