
This episode from the landmark documentary series "We Shall Remain" examines the tense 1973 standoff between federal agents and scores of armed Native Americans who occupied Wounded Knee, a small town on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Sioux reservation. Focusing on the dire social and other factors that led to the siege, this program also reveals how the violent clash also aided the modern rebirth of Native American culture and identity.-
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The
Wounded Knee Massacre or the Battle of
Wounded Knee was the last armed conflict between the Great Sioux Nation and the United States of America and of the Indian Wars.[citation needed] On December 29, 1890, 365 troops of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, -
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www.eyewitnesstohistory.comThe Wounded Knee Massacre - December 1890
The
Wounded Knee Massacre White officials became alarmed at the religious fervor and in December 1890 banned the Ghost Dance on Lakota reservations.When the rites continued, officials called in troops to Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations in South Da -
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