Wounded Knee was a must see on our trip to South Dakota. We drove into the parking lot where the monument is, and 30 seconds later a Native American woman jumps out of a car and approaches us and starts telling us about the massacre.

The Wounded Knee Battlefield was the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 in South Dakota, United States. An 870-acre (350 ha) area was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1965. [3]

Nov 6, 2009 · Wounded Knee in South Dakota was the site of an 1890 Indian massacre by U.S. Army troops, and a deadly 1973 occupation by Native American activists.

The museum is located at Exit 110 on Interstate 90 in Wall, South Dakota, and displays a carefully researched account of the events leading up to, during, and after the massacre, through primary sources like journals, witness reports, Congressional …

The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, involved nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army.

The Wounded Knee Massacre Site is located in southwestern South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation at the village of Wounded Knee, SD. It is at this site where the United States federal troops slaughtered approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians.

Wounded Knee is a settlement on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota that was the site of two conflicts between Native Americans and the U.S. government—a massacre in 1890 in which 150-300 Lakota were killed by the U.S. Army and an occupation led by the American Indian Movement in 1973.

Dec 29, 2024 · Wounded Knee Massacre (December 29, 1890) was the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by U.S. Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. The massacre was the climax of the U.S. Army’s late 19th-century efforts to repress the Plains Indians.

Wounded Knee, South Dakota: Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial. Active reservation cemetery contains monument and mass grave of hundreds of Sioux massacred on Dec. 29, 1890 by U.S. Cavalry. In 1973 it was site of a stand-off between the …

The Wounded Knee Massacre took place Dec. 29, 1890, and was a conflict between the North American Lakota People and representatives of the U.S. government which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Lakota men, women and children.