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Lakota~The Massacre at Wounded Knee


Ghost Dance

Wovoka~Jack Wilson~(c.1856-1932)

Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee

Kicking Bear

Medicine Man Corpse

The mass grave at Wounded Knee

Indian Bodies on the ground at Wounded Knee

A mounted soldier rides among the dead Indians at Wounded Knee

On New Year's Day in 1891

Soldiers with the Hotchkiss guns used at Wounded Knee

A Survivor's Story

A Lakota Story

Eye Witness Accounts

James McLaughlin Letter

Turning Hawk, testimony to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs

The 9th cavalry camp :

The Pine Ridge Agency (1890 or 1891):

After the massacre :

Wounded Knee store (1891) :

Battle of Wounded Knee :

Sioux Chiefs in their "Regalia" (1891 or 1896 ?):

Chief Young Man Afraid Of His Horses :

Grand Council Photo 2 on January 17, 1891 :

Rosebud and Sioux Indian, War Dance at Pine Ridge 1890 :

Lakota Chiefs 1891 :

Chiefs in front of tent :

Ration Day at Pine Ridge

Big Foot & Family

Wounded Knee Cemetery

Eli Ricker interviews Wounded Knee survivors

Eli Ricker Interview Documents

Field Dispatches of General Miles

General Nelson A. Miles Letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs in....

Story location: Washington D.C.Story date: 1917

Added by: bgill

Dr. Daniel F. Royer