Tag: Wounded Knee

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29th December 1890: Lakota Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee

29th December 2022
Tagged as: American West, Lakota, Native Americans, Sioux, United States, USA, Westward Expansion, Wild West, Wounded Knee

More than 150 Native Americans from the Lakota tribe were killed by U.S. soldiers in the Wounded Knee Massacre.

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27th February 1973: Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee

27th February 2021
Tagged as: American Indian Movement, Indians, Native Americans, Occupation, Politics, Protest, South Dakota, Wounded Knee

Approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota, for 71 days.