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Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee

Commissioner of Indian Affairs

On December 29, 1890, the U.S. military entered the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation with the intention of disarming the natives. When met with resistance, the cavalry opened fire on the Lakota in a massacre that killed several hundred men, women,...


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