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Wounded Knee: The Museum

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Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
Wounded Knee: The Museum
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The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The previous day, a detachment of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside intercepted Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them 5 miles westward to Wounded Knee Creek, where they made camp. The remainder of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, led by Colonel James W. Forsyth, arrived and surrounded the encampment. The regiment was supported by a battery of four Hotchkiss mountain guns.On the morning of December 29, the U.S. Cavalry troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota. One version of events claims that during the process of disarming the Lakota, a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote was reluctant to give up his rifle, claiming he had paid a lot for it. Simultaneously, an old man was performing a ritual called the Ghost Dance. Black Coyote's rifle went off at that point, and the U.S. army began shooting at the Native Americans. The disarmed Lakota warriors did their best to fight back.By the time the massacre was over, more than 150-300 men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed and 51 were wounded ; some estimates placed the number of dead at 300. Twenty-five soldiers also died, and 39 were wounded . At least twenty soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor. In 2001, the National Congress of American Indians passed two resolutions condemning the military awards and called on the U.S. government to rescind them.The Wounded Knee Battlefield, site of the battle-massacre, has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior. In 1990, both houses of the U.S. Congress passed a resolution on the historical centennial formally expressing deep regret for the massacre.
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