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 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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Members of the American Indian Movement took over the town of Wounded Knee on Feb. 27, ... children and old men were massacred on Dec. 29, 1890, by troops of the 7th Cavalry.

The massacre took place at Wounded Knee Creek in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on Dec. 29, 1890. The 7th Cavalry had located and surrounded a group of Lakota people and was trying to disarm ...

On December 29, 1890, elements of the United States Army’s 7th Cavalry slaughtered between 250 and 300 members of the Lakota people in a genocidal exercise, grotesque even by the standards of ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has directed the Pentagon to review 20 Medals of Honor awarded for actions during the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, in which the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry opened fire ...

The Wounded Knee massacre saw soldiers from the Army’s 7th Cavalry kill or injure some 350 to 375 Lakota — mostly unarmed men, women and children, according to federal government estimates.

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.