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December 29

Wounded Knee Massacre: US Army Kills 300 Lakota Men, Women, and Children

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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