200 Lakota Fall: Wounded Knee Massacre
U.S. cavalrymen opened indiscriminate fire on an unarmed Lakota encampment, slaughtering over 200 men, women, and children in a single morning. This massacre extinguished organized armed resistance on the Great Plains and cemented federal control over Native lands through brutal force rather than treaty.
December 29, 1890
136 years ago
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