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You mean the Massacre at Wounded Knee. There was no battle. The US army killed men, women and children.
You mean the Massacre at Wounded Knee. There was no battle. The US Army killed men, women and children.
No it was not.
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The Battle of Wounded Knee was the last significant engagement between American Indians and the US military. It was very one-sided and resulted in the deaths of over 300 Indian men, women, and children.
Sand creek massacare
the thing that is important about it is that it was a Sioux battle with US troops and was very well known about.
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You mean the Massacre at Wounded Knee. There was no battle. The US army killed men, women and children.
You mean the Massacre at Wounded Knee. There was no battle. The US Army killed men, women and children.
Wounded Knee was not a siege, it was a massacre. On December 29, 1890, the US troops who were surrounding a camp of surrendered Sioux Indians from a nearby reservation were ordered to disarm the Indians. Accounts vary, but a shot was fired and the US troops opened fire and slaughtered nearly 300 Sioux. This number includes women, children, and babies fleeing the camp who were hunted down and killed.
The tragedy at wounded knee occured when Sitting Bull, chief of the Lakota Sioux, was being hunted down for being the leader of the "ghost dance," the spiritual dance that was performed so that the bufallo would come back and all the white settlers would leave. Troops came to Sitting Bull's reservation, and Sitting Bull died in an exchange of gunfire. The other particapnts of the Ghost dance then escaped, but troops went after them. At Wounded Knee Creek, gunfire broke out and 200 largely unarmed Lakota and 25 US soldiers were killed.
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The US government attacked the Native Americans.
Other than the US Frontier Wars which lasted from the time the Pilgrims landed in 1620 until the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890.
34,000 US troops killed in action. 150,000 wounded