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Burial of the dead after the massacre of Wounded Knee. U.S. Soldiers
putting Indians in common grave; some corpses are frozen in different
positions. South Dakota. |
Today this happened in the past: The Wounded Knees Massacre December 29, 1890.
Wounded Knee Creek (Lakota:
Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
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"What's left of Big Foot's band": John Grabill, 1891 John C. H. Grabill - John C. H. Grabill Collection, Library of Congress |
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The scene three days afterwards, with several bodies partially wrapped in blankets in the foreground. |
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Buffalo Bill, Capt. Baldwin, Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Capt. Moss, and others, on horseback, on battlefield of Wounded Knee. |
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Frozen corpse on field |
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