29 December 1890
MassacreBook sources
Wounded Knee massacre
South Dakota; Miniconjou and Hunkpapa Lakota
The Seventh Cavalry surrounded a Lakota group and attempted to disarm it; gunfire escalated into mass killing, including women and children. The massacre became a lasting symbol of military coercion and the suppression of Indigenous life.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
Death estimates vary, commonly in the hundreds. Hotchkiss weapons were artillery, not machine guns as the ebook labels them.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8
- National Park Service: Wounded Knee battlefield study ↗