Wounded Knee Massacre
1890 Sioux tragedy
The Wounded Knee Massacre was the 1890 killing of approximately 250-300 Lakota Sioux by U.S.
Army soldiers at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.
It marked the effective end of armed Native American resistance to U.S. expansion.
The site became a symbol of government violence against Indigenous peoples, especially after the 1973 occupation by American Indian Movement activists.
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- Indian Removal ActLaw authorizing tribal expulsion
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