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Wounded Knee Massacre — the full case file

SOLVEDWounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation3:1424 August 2026

On December 29, 1890, U.S. 7th Cavalry troops surrounded a Lakota encampment at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, and killed between 250 and 300 Lakota men, women, and children after an attempt to disarm the camp led to gunfire; 25 soldiers also died.

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