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. [5] More than 250 and up …

Dec 22, 2025 · Wounded Knee Massacre (December 29, 1890) was the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by U.S. Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee …

May 13, 2022 · On this day in 1890, in the final chapter of America's long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

Feb 6, 2024 · The Wounded Knee Massacre of 29 December 1890 was the slaughter of over 250 Native Americans, mostly of the Miniconjou people of the Lakota Sioux nation, by the US …

Under the command of Colonel James W. Forsyth, the regiment apprehended the Standing Rock Hunkpapas and Big Foot's Miniconjous near Wounded Knee Creek on December 28. The …

As part of the crackdown against the Ghost Dance, soldiers from the Seventh U.S. Cavalry Regiment arrested a band of Lakota who were traveling toward the Pine Ridge Reservation …

On December 29, 1890, on Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota, a tangle of events resulted in the deaths of more than 250, and possibly as many as 300, Native …

Jun 8, 2025 · The Wounded Knee massacre remains one of the darkest and most shameful chapters in American history. On a frozen morning in December 1890, nearly 300 Native …

Jan 8, 2026 · Instead, the memorialization at Wounded Knee emphasizes the massacre, the indiscriminate killing of Lakota men, women, and children, and the ongoing pain it represents …

Dec 19, 2025 · Washington, D.C. – Today, the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act, introduced by U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), was signed into law by …