Wounded Knee Massacre
1890 · Event
Days after Sitting Bull's killing, the 7th Cavalry opens fire while disarming Spotted Elk's band at Wounded Knee Creek, killing around 250 Lakota men, women and children — the end of armed Native resistance on the Plains.
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