Wounded Knee Massacre

Massacre of injured knee, US soldiers in the injured Knee Creek area of ​​southwestern South Dakota killed 150 to 300 Indians (December 29, 1890)

By 1890, the Hirano Indians have defended their territory and have lost the struggle to fight the expansionist American lifestyle. Semi - hunger and desperate, they accepted ghost dance, religious resurrection and promised to regain their old world before the arrival of white people. It is believed that this recovery can be accelerated by special dances and songs revealed to their prophets. They believe that "Ghost shirts" that empower mentally can also protect them from white bullets.

The nervous American authorities considered ghost dance as war dance and decided to crack down on this movement as a covering of Indian riot. On December 15, 1890, an attempt was made to arrest the famous Lakota suicide sitting bull, during which a battle took place and Chieftain was murdered. For safety, the Lakota Sue Band led by the American spotted moose is the big foot of Pine Ridge.

On December 28, Lakota met the detachment of the seventh cavalry under the rule of Major Samuel White side. The cavalry took Lakota to Knee Creek who was injured. The remaining cavalry regiments then arrived at Colonel James Forsythe. They surrounded the Indian camp and placed four fast-forwarding staplers in the surrounding area.

The next morning Forsyth ordered Lakota to disarm. According to many reports, a drug man named Yellow Bird began ghost dancing, other Lakota began singing ghost dance, throwing dirt in the air, stirring the soldiers, causing tension. A confusion occurred when soldiers tried to disarm young Lakota named Black Coyote. The Indians refused to hand over their rifle, but he said he was blind and dismissed in a gun battle following the rifle because he did not understand the command of disarmament. Confusion occurred when Lakota and American soldiers began shooting at close range. A panicked soldier killed a stapler gun to the camp and killed his friends and enemies. Less than an hour, the battle ended, nearly half of Lakota including more than 60 women and children died. The next day, another shooting between Lakota 's Ghost dancer and the seventh Drexel mission' s cavalry was done, but the movement of the ghost dance actually ended.

Loss: 150 to 300 people including Lakota, over 60 women and children, 31 deaths in the US, 500 injuries in 33 people

The injured knee massacre occurred near the injured Knee Creek (Lakota: Cankpe Opi Wakpala) on December 29, 1890. The day before, the squad of the 7th cavalry regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside intercepted the Spotted Elk (bigfoot) band Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them eight miles (8.0 km) westward . Nee Creek who was injured in the camp. The remaining troops of the 7th cavalry regiment led by Colonel James Forsythe enclosed the camp and was supported by four stapler guns.

1890: Massacre of injured knee in South Dakota State. On December 29, 1890, 365 soldiers of the seventh cavalry of the United States were supported by four stapler guns around the Minicomputer Joe (Lakota) camp near the state of South Dakota State Nee Creek and Humper Pass (Lakota) camp. The Army ordered the escort of Siou to escort the railroad to Omaha, Nebraska. One day ago Sue did not go anywhere and agreed to turn around at Pine Ridge facility in South Dakota. They are the last Sioug people who did this. In the process of disarming Siou, a member of the tribe named Black Coyote could not hear the order to abandon the rifle and did not want to do so. Black coyote rifle brawl escalated to a full battle, some Si fighter still launches weapons with the seventh cavalry and the seventh cavalry indiscriminately men, women, children as themselves I murdered. Comrade