Wounded Knee Massacre

When

29 Dec 1890

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

300

Coordinates

43.14° N, 102.36° W

Description

violent attack on Lakota Indians in 1890 by the United States Army

1890 massacre of hundreds of Lakota in South Dakota

The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was an 1890 armed conflict between Native Americans and the United States Army. It was part of the U.S. Army’s Pine Ridge Campaign. Between 250 and 300 Lakota people were killed, and 51 were wounded. Twenty-five U.S. soldiers were killed and 39 were wounded.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Wounded Knee Massacre: At Wounded Knee, South Dakota, a Lakota camp, the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment tries to disperse the non-violent "Ghost-Dance" which was…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Kızılderililer ile Amerika Birleşik Devletleri arasında Wounded Knee Savaşı oldu”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “massacre de Wounded Knee”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “tiene lugar la masacre de Wounded Knee, última de las grandes confrontaciones entre los indios lakota y los Estados Unidos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “米国でウンデット・ニーの虐殺”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page