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The Wounded Knee Battlefield was the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 in South Dakota, United States. An 870-acre (350 ha) area was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1965. [ 3 ]
The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, involved nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army.The massacre, part of what the U.S. military called the Pine Ridge Campaign, [5] occurred on December 29, 1890, [6] near Wounded Knee Creek (Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota ...
In the early 1890s, South Dakota was a young state that had recently witnessed a major conflict between the U.S. Army and Native Americans at the Wounded Knee Massacre. The construction of a Federal building at Sioux Falls was intended to create a sense of stability and permanence among the newly arrived settlers. [2]
The Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act, introduced by Republican U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota in May, passed the House by voice vote. The Senate is considering companion ...
134 years ago, hundreds of Lakota were massacred at South Dakota's Wounded Knee Creek. The U.S. is reviewing medals awarded to soldiers who took part. Sunday marked date of 'cold-blooded massacre ...
Wounded Kneen verilöyly; Usage on fo.wikipedia.org South Dakota; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Massacre de Wounded Knee; Portail:Dakota du Sud; Portail:Dakota du Sud/Histoire; 1890 aux États-Unis; Génocide de peuples autochtones; Guerre de la Danse des esprits; Usage on fy.wikipedia.org Yndianen; Lakota (folk) Bloedbad fan Wounded Knee; Sû (folk)
Next day they were attacked by over 500 US Army soldiers, and event known as the Wounded Knee Massacre. Approximately 250 to 300 Natives were killed, including many women and children, and the massacre halted the exodus. [5] Survivors settled on the Pine Ridge Reservation or returned to the Cheyenne River Reservation.
Tribes in South Dakota are working with a rural Massachusetts museum to return hundreds of items believed to have been taken from ancestors massacred at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890.