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On This Day in 1890, the U.S. Army Killed Nearly 300 Lakota People in the Wounded Knee Massacre
As initial reports of a mass murder of Lakota Native Americans on December 29, 1890, trickled across the ... 150 and 300 people in southwestern South Dakota in an incident now known as the ...
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INVADING SIOUX LANDS; THE RESERVATION OPENED BY THE PRESIDENT. THE FORMALITIES AT WASHINGTON ANNOUNCED BY CANNON AND FOLLOWED BY A GENERAL SCRAMBLE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. -- The President to-day signed the proclamation opening the Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. He has also issued an order establishing land offices at Pierre and Chamberlain.
Wounded Knee Medals of Honor come under scrutiny as massacre is revisited
On July 19, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the review by five experts to examine the actions of 20 soldiers involved ...
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Native Americans and Mount Rushmore
South Dakota was also the site of the last major defeat of Native Americans at the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890. In his bestselling 1970 history of Native Americans' experiences in the West ...
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South Dakota's Rounds, Thune reintroduce Wounded Knee lands bill in Congress
New action is underway to protect the lands where a majority of bloodshed occurred during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre ... Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota re-introduced a bill to ...
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Wounded Knee Sacred Site Act moves to Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
where a majority of the bloodshed at the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 occurred, into restricted fee status. This was an effort from all South Dakota legislators. On Jan. 3, Rep. Dusty Johnson ...