Between Christmas and New Years in late Dec. 1890 Lakota People
were massacred
in and around
Wounded Knee Creek, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
in South Dakota.
The links on this page will help you learn more about
that foundation of history for the Lakota people of Wounded Knee.

 

(The frozen body of Chief Big Foot)

 

1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee

http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/wknee.htm

Massacre At Wounded Knee, 1890

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/knee.htm

 

 

(Massacre victims being gathered into "Dead Carts")

 

the Hotchkiss guns

http://www.iwchildren.org/hotchks.htm

 

 

(Cavalry Soilders with Hotchkiss guns)

 

A Wounded Knee Information Site

http://www.dickshovel.com/WKmasscre.html

 

 

(The grave of Lost Bird in Wounded Knee Cemetary)

 

 

 

 

History of Wounded Knee 1890 Page

Cankpe Opi Tiyospaye Online
Created by LakotaLance
est.: FEB 2003

Updated: FEB 2007

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URL: https://cankpeopitiyospaye.tripod.com/HistoryOfWoundedKnee1890.htm