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Wounded Knee

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Wounded Knee creek, rising in SW S.Dak. and flowing NW to the White River; site of the last major battle of the Indian wars . After the death of Sitting Bull, a band of Sioux, led by Big Foot, fled into the badlands, where they were captured by the 7th Cavalry on Dec. 28, 1890, and brought to the creek. On Dec. 29, the Sioux were ordered disarmed; but when a medicine man threw dust into the air, a warrior pulled a gun and wounded an officer. The U.S. troops opened fire, and within minutes almost 200 men, women, and children were shot. The soldiers later claimed that it was difficult to distinguish the Sioux women from the men.

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