What happened at the massacre at wounded knee?

Answer 1

American soldiers killed more than 200 unarmed Sioux.

My ancestors were butchered near the creek called Wounded Knee, "Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála" in Lakota. My Great Great Grandfather, Black Wolf and my Great Great Grandmother Red Elk were amongst the dead. Red Elk was the 1st wife of my Great Great Grandfather, Standing Bear "Mato Nijan". Standing Bear was touring Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show when the news came. He returned to South Dakota to find many relatives and friends were gone. I've visited the site, there was a small white church on a hill near the mass grave. There's a sense of quiet sadness, the spirits whispering in the waving prairie grass. I've been to the site of Custer's Last Stand too. It also has a feeling of grief but not as powerful or sad as Wounded Knee.

In a photo, Chief Big Foot is frozen in time, laying partially covered with snow, he was suffering from pneumonia. The bodies of my Ancestors laid in the snow during a 3 day blizzard. They were frozen solid & thrown into the mass grave like animals, with the Army standing around. Natives treat death with dignity. We honor the person for who they were and believe the spirit has left this realm to "The Happy Hunting Grounds".

This Massacre marked the end of the Indian Wars.

I found these notes:

On the morning of December 29, 1890, the army demanded the surrender of all Sioux weapons. Amid the tension, a shot rang out, possibly from a deaf brave who misunderstood his chief's orders to surrender.

The Seventh Cavalry - the reconstructed regiment lost by George Armstrong Custer - opened fire on the Sioux. The local chief, Big Foot, was shot in cold blood as he recuperated from pneumonia in his tent. Others were cut down as they tried to run away. When the smoke cleared almost all of the 300 men, women, and children were dead. Some died instantly, others froze to death in the snow.

This massacre marked the last showdown between Native Americans and the United States Army. It was nearly 400 years after Christopher Columbus first contacted the first Americans. The 1890 United States census declared the frontier officially closed.

Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded to many of the cavalrymen who fought (there was no fight) at Wounded Knee. Despite the current view that the battle was a massacre of innocents, the Medals still stand. Some native American and other groups and individuals continue to lobby Congress to rescind these "Medals of dis-Honor".

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Answer 2

American soldiers killed more than 200 unarmed Sioux.

My ancestors were butchered near the creek called Wounded Knee, "Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála" in Lakota. My Great Great Grandfather, Black Wolf and my Great Great Grandmother Red Elk were amongst the dead. Red Elk was the 1st wife of my Great Great Grandfather, Standing Bear "Mato Nijan". Standing Bear was touring Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show when the news came. He returned to South Dakota to find many relatives and friends were gone. I've visited the site, there was a small white church on a hill near the mass grave. There's a sense of quiet sadness, the spirits whispering in the waving prairie grass. I've been to the site of Custer's Last Stand too. It also has a feeling of grief but not as powerful or sad as Wounded Knee.

In a photo, Chief Big Foot is frozen in time, laying partially covered with snow, he was suffering from pneumonia. The bodies of my Ancestors laid in the snow during a 3 day blizzard. They were frozen solid & thrown into the mass grave like animals, with the Army standing around. Natives treat death with dignity. We honor the person for who they were and believe the spirit has left this realm to "The Happy Hunting Grounds".

This Massacre marked the end of the Indian Wars.

I found these notes:

On the morning of December 29, 1890, the army demanded the surrender of all Sioux weapons. Amid the tension, a shot rang out, possibly from a deaf brave who misunderstood his chief's orders to surrender.

The Seventh Cavalry - the reconstructed regiment lost by George Armstrong Custer - opened fire on the Sioux. The local chief, Big Foot, was shot in cold blood as he recuperated from pneumonia in his tent. Others were cut down as they tried to run away. When the smoke cleared almost all of the 300 men, women, and children were dead. Some died instantly, others froze to death in the snow.

This massacre marked the last showdown between Native Americans and the United States Army. It was nearly 400 years after Christopher Columbus first contacted the first Americans. The 1890 United States census declared the frontier officially closed.

Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded to many of the cavalrymen who fought (there was no fight) at Wounded Knee. Despite the current view that the battle was a massacre of innocents, the Medals still stand. Some native American and other groups and individuals continue to lobby Congress to rescind these "Medals of dis-Honor".

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