The Wounded Knee Massacre, officially known as The Wounded Knee Battle, occurred on December 29, 1890, in the Lakota Reservation. It was the last major killing of Native Americans. The conflict was between the United States 7th cavalry and the Lakota Tribe, but the Lakota did nothing to provoke the fight. Years before this, the Americans continued to steal the Lakotas land hunt the bison to extinction. The Americans were encroaching on their land for gold. The treaty promises that protested the
December of 1890 a mass killing of the Lakota Sioux people took place at Wounded Knee Creek after months of increasing tension between the tribe and the United States government. This incident later known as The Wounded Knee Massacre was an event of major symbolic importance as it represented the end of both the Indian Wars and, in many ways, the close of the Western Frontier. Over the past 125 years since the Wounded Knee Massacre the event has been a major focus on many major books on the history
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