The list includes the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, when U.S. 7th Cavalry soldiers gunned down hundreds of Lakota men, women and children — making it among the worst mass shootings in American ...

They were intercepted by men of the 7th Cavalry and ordered to an army encampment at Wounded Knee, where plans were to disarm them. About 470 cavalry troopers surrounded them as Big Foot`s band ...

The 7th Cavalry arrived at Wounded Knee Creek and sought to disarm the Lakota. A gun discharged during that attempt followed by bitter fighting. The battle shifted to a ravine.

On Dec. 28, 1890, the 7th Cavalry—previously led by Gen. George Armstrong Custer, who died with his men at Little Bighorn—went into Wounded Knee Creek. The Lakotas of the Miniconjou band said ...

On June 25, 1876, Gen. George Custer’s 7th Cavalry attacked the largest gathering of Native American Indians seen in North America, home of the Sioux chief, Sitting Bull.

134 years ago, hundreds of Lakota were massacred at South Dakota's Wounded Knee Creek. ... in the snow at Wounded Knee Creek by the 7th Cavalry on Dec. 29, 1890.

On July 19, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the review by five experts to examine the actions of 20 soldiers involved in the fighting at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, on Dec. 29, 1890.

In response, the 7th Cavalry opened fire on the defenseless group. Sabers were drawn, carbines were unleashed and Hotchkiss machine guns were fired, resulting in the massacre of nearly 300 Miniconjou.

But his invocation of Wounded Knee—one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history—is a new low. On December 29, 1890, the U.S. 7th Cavalry massacred hundreds of Lakota near Wounded Knee ...

The 7th Cavalry had been aching for revenge since then. ... The road to Wounded Knee began 14 years earlier at Custer’s (foolhardy) last stand at the Little Bighorn.

“If you don't know what actually happened at Wounded Knee, you might assume that every member of the 7th Cavalry, you know, just stood up and executed Lakota. And that is not what the record ...