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	Wounded Knee Site Index
		Wounded Knee, A Wound That Won't Heal Did the Army Attempt To Coverup the Massacre of Prisoners of War?
		Note that the Massacre at Wounded Knee did not happen in a vacuum, it was not an unrelated incident.
		Thus fueled was the murderous firestorm that was Wounded Knee.
	www.dickshovel.com /WKmasscre.html (622 words)

	Wounded Knee Massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last major armed conflict between the Lakota Sioux and the United States, subsequently described as a "massacre" by General Nelson A. Miles in a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
		Historically, Wounded Knee is generally considered to be the end of the Indian Wars, the collective multi-century series of conflicts between colonial and U.S. forces and American Indian peoples.
		A related skirmish took place at Drexel Mission the day after the Battle of Wounded Knee that resulted in the death of one trooper and the wounding of six others from K Troop, 7th Cavalry, with an unknown number of Lakota casualties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre (2424 words)

	Wounded Knee - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wounded Knee, unincorporated community in South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
		Wounded Knee was the site of two conflicts between the...
		The Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Sioux fought white encroachment on their territory in the 1860s and 1870s; the fighting was ferocious on both sides.
	encarta.msn.com /Wounded_Knee.html (179 words)

	Wounded knee 1973 Seige
		The warriors that occupied Wounded Knee held fast to these demands and refused to lay down arms until they were met.
		During the Wounded Knee occupation, they would live in their traditional manner, celebrating a birth, a marriage and they would mourn the death of two of their fellow warriors inside Wounded Knee.
		Wounded Knee was a great victory for the Oglala Sioux as well as all other Indian Nations.
	siouxme.com /siege.html (1043 words)

	Wounded Knee Remembered...
		The precursor to the memorial ride, from 1986 to 1989, was done from Bridger to the Wounded Knee Memorial in accordance with Oglala medicine man Curtis Kills Ree's vision to release the spirits of the Wounded Knee victims and to complete the cycle of grieving for them.
		WOUNDED KNEE -- On a windy Friday morning when masses of gray clouds roiling in a blue sky mirrored the dappled pattern of white snow and tan bare grass on the Wounded Knee landscape, the Big Foot Memorial Ride concluded with ceremonies at the Wounded Knee memorial.
		On the 110th anniversary of the massacre it remembers, this event was as full of contrast as the weather and the surrounding prairie.
	www.ouachitalk.com /wounded.htm (14062 words)

	STAR - Indian 101 - The Massacre at Wounded Knee
		They then proceeded toward the camp at Wounded Knee Creek, led by two cavalry troops with the other two troops bringing up the rear with their Hotchkiss guns.
		The Wounded Knee site played another significant role in the history of the Sioux nation, in 1973 in the second siege of Wounded Knee.
		The siege began as an occupation of the church at Wounded Knee in protest of the government of Dickie Wilson, the officially sanctioned government of the reservation.
	www.racismagainstindians.org /Perspectives/Essays/WoundedKnee.htm (1429 words)

	Massacre at Wounded Knee, With Arabic Subtitles: From Pine Ridge to Haditha /Pierre Tristam [Candide's Notebooks]
		As Black Elk described the scene in one of his recollections, “Dead and wounded women and children and little babies were scattered all along there where they had been trying to run away.
		Incidentally, the New York Times editorial belittling the characterization of Wounded Knee as a massacre was written on January 22, 1891, five days after Elaine Goodale’s account had appeared in the very same paper.
		Wounded Knee is just one example of a domestic blight, out there, a vulture’s hike from Mount Rushmore, so named after a lawyer who made his fortune expropriating the Black Hills from Indians, and so eventually carved of presidential faces by the anti-Semite and white supremacist Gutzon Borglum.
	www.pierretristam.com /Bobst/Archives/CN122906.htm (1551 words)

	Mount Marty - News
		Original documentary photographs of the December 29, 1890, Wounded Knee Massacre from the Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School at Holy Rosary Mission in Pine Ridge SD, will be on loan from their permanent display at Pine Ridge in the Bede Art Gallery at Mount Marty College January 30 through February 22, 2006.
		These factual circumstances led to the carnage that would come to be known as the Wounded Knee Massacre.
		Sixteen days before the Wounded Knee Massacre, Sitting Bull was killed as he was being taken prisoner along the Grand River in South Dakota.
	www.mtmc.edu /about/archive/wounded_knee_art_06.html (545 words)

	Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Siege of Wounded Knee 1973 forever changed the lives of Indian people who took part and captured the imaginations of those who watched this gripping story unfold on television and in newspapers across America.
		It was the culmination of an awakening that had begun with the formation of the American Indian Movement, the takeover of Alcatraz Island, and the occupation of BIA headquarters in Washington D.C. Nowhere was that awakening more profound, nor reaction by the government greater than around the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
		A Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973 tells this dramatic and emotional story in the words of those men and women who struggled for survival inside the bunkers and ravines at Wounded Knee.
	www.warriorsofwoundedknee.com /home.htm (373 words)

	legendsofamerica.com :: View topic - Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee
		Little boys who were not wounded came out of their places of refuge, and as soon as they came in sight a number of soldiers surrounded them and butchered them there.
		Surviving Indians stampeded in wild disorder for the shelter of the draw 200 feet to the south, escaping west and east in the draw, and north down Wounded Knee Creek.
		The Wounded Knee battlefield is the site of the last armed conflict between the Sioux Indians and the United States Army.
	legendsofamerica.com /bulletinboard/viewtopic.php?p=100&... (2697 words)

	Massacre at Wounded Knee - Encyclopedia.com
		Wounded Knee, Massacre at (December 29, 1890) Last stage in the conflict between Native Americans and US forces.
		Remembering the Wounded Knee Massacre: Big Foot Ride - grueling journey is for future Lakota generations
		From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee in the West That Was.(Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O142-WoundedKneeMassacreat.html (420 words)

	About the Wounded Knee Massacre
		Just two weeks later, on the morning of December 29, 1890, on Wounded Knee Creek near the Pine Ridge agency, the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S. Army opened fire on an encampment of Big Foot's band of Miniconjou Sioux.
		One survivor recalled that she was wounded but was so scared she did not feet it.
		One young woman, crying out for her mother, had been wounded close to her throat, and the bullet had taken some of her braid into the wound.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/momaday/knee.htm (673 words)

	[R-G] The Wounded Knee Massacre of Peaceful Sioux
		Mother!' She was wounded under her chin, close to her throat, and the bullet had passed through a braid of her hair and carried some of it into the wound, and then the bullet had entered from the front side of the shoulder and passed out the back side.
		White Lance was wounded in several places and weak from loss of blood, but he succeeded in bearing William to the bottom of the ravine...Dewey said they now heard the Hotchkiss or Gatling guns shooting at them along the bank.
		The rifle was discharged and a massacre occurred, not only the warriors but the sick Chief Big Foot, and a large number of women and children who tried to escape by running and scattering over the prarie were hunted down and killed.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/rad-green/2001-December/002226.html (4930 words)

	Today in History: December 29
		Battle of Wounded Knee, 1890-4000 Teepies [sic], 1890.
		On December 29, 1890 at Wounded Knee Creek, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, some 500 soldiers of the United States Seventh Cavalry opened fire on approximately 350 Lakota (Sioux) Indians of Chief Big Foot's Miniconjou band.
		The Wounded Knee massacre was the last major confrontation between Indians and the American military until the late twentieth century.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/dec29.html (1864 words)

	The Lost Bird of Wounded Knee
		The massacre at wounded knee was occurring because the government wanted to put our people on reservations.
		It symbolizes what she went through as a child, being taken right after the massacre and after something really traumatic like that and the child being taken by the general to another place and raised differently.
		And it was a massacre of unarmed men who were put in a council circle and fired upon until some of them died right away, but some didn’t so they laid kicking and rolling in their own blood until they died.
	www.sdpb.org /tv/oto/lostbird/mariefoxbelly.asp (3598 words)

	The 110th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre [Free Republic]
		While the wounded and dead of the Army had been immediately evacuated to Pine Ridge, it was not until two days later that an effort was made to gather up the dead and wounded Lakotas.
		Wounded Knee was more than 20 years later, I think, and the 7th Cavalry had been involved in confrontations with the Souix several times in the intervening years, with no massacre.
		Wounded Knee is one of many blemishes on this great nation.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a4cb25f05ed.htm (4612 words)

	Heroes of Wounded Knee Creek
		Wounded Knee was the culmination of a series of so called justifiable actions (massacres) that started as soon as Indigenous people were discovered living on San Salvador by Columbus.
		Massacres continued in the Southwest amongst the Apache, Pueblo, and where ever the lust for riches and land could not be satisfied.
		Comparisons could be made between the massacres at Wounded Knee-1890 and the Viet Nam massacre at My Lai-1968, both were dark skinned native peoples that were just trying to live on the land given to them by the Creator, but were regarded by the soldiers killing them as vermin to be exterminated.
	www.nativeweb.org /pages/legal/medals.html (1771 words)

	Wounded Knee massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Sioux chief Big Foot was seventy-years old and in poor health suffering with a pneumonia, when he was killed by the 7th U.S cavalry during the massacre at Wounded Knee.
		They were brought to the army camp at Wounded Knee, were the soldiers had set up four Hotchiss guns on a ridge overlooking the Sioux camp.
		The Sioux were orded to hand over their weapons, but suddenly under all the confusion a singel shot broke out, and that was all the soldiers needed, the Hotchiss guns started to fire at close range.
	www.affv.nu /andreasson/wounded_knee/page29.htm (342 words)

	The 110th Anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre
		Massacre At Wounded Knee, 1890 (includes eye-witness accounts from both sides as well as pictures).
		In spite of – or maybe because of – the general turmoil and debate surrounding the Wounded Knee operation, thirty-two men were cited for their actions in the fight.
		Note 2: One of the soldiers that participated in the Wounded Knee Massacre is quoted as saying, "Men, women and children were piled up on that little flat in one confused mass.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/felkins4.html (3595 words)

	Epic Confrontation at the Siege Of Wounded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It is relatively common knowledge that members of the 7th calvalry were awarded Medals of dis-Honor for their " valiant" efforts in the "battle" of Wounded Knee.
		The Medal of Honor, is the highest award of the military, for uncommon valor and bravery in battle with an armed enemy, not for a massacre of unarmed people who had surrendered and were under a white flag of truce.
		There was a grievous wrong committed back in 1890, but there is even a more grievous wrong being committed today by honoring the soldiers that committed this "cruel and unjustifiable massacre", in the words of their own commanding officer.
	www.tcsn.net /siegeatwoundedknee/epic_confrontation_at_the_siege_.htm (165 words)

	Oyate - Avoid Wounded Knee
		Yet the tragedy that became known as the Wounded Knee Massacre is consistently portrayed in children’s books and texts as a battle arising from a series of unfortunate cultural misunderstandings.
		It was the inevitable conclusion of the clash between two disparate nations, the end of the culture of nomadic hunters who had roamed the great plains of North America for centuries.
		Wounded Knee has been praised as “sympathetic” and “balanced” and “nonjudgmental,” yet the question of just how a depiction of a massacre can be balanced has not been asked.
	www.oyate.org /books-to-avoid/woundedKnee.html (1450 words)

	The Massacre
		The majority of the massacre fatalities occurred during the initial ten to twenty minutes of the incident, but the firing lasted for several hours as the army chased after those who tried to escape into the nearby ravine.
		Twenty-three soldiers from the Seventh Calvary were later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for the slaughter of defenseless Indians at Wounded Knee.
		The wounded and dying were taken to a makeshift hospital in the Pine Ridge Episcopal Church.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/woundedknee/WKmscr.html (1391 words)

	The Wounded Knee Massacre - Nativelandz Reference Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890 (which was originally referred to by the United States army as the Battle of Wounded Knee -- a descriptive moniker that remains highly contested by the Native American community) is known as the event that ended the last of the Indian wars in America.
		There, on the snowy banks of Wounded Knee Creek (Cankpe Opi Wakpala), nearly 300 Lakota men, women, and children -- old and young -- were massacred in a highly charged, violent encounter with U.S. soldiers.
		The Wounded Knee Massacre, according to scholars, symbolizes not only a culmination of a clash of cultures and the failure of governmental Indian policies, but also the end of the American frontier.
	www.nativelandz.net /library/history/the-wounded-knee-massacre.html (352 words)

	Wounded Knee ~ Hear Their Screams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It is not unreasonable that ask that we face the truth of the situation and admit that the massacre at Wounded Knee dose not deserve the merit that it has been given.
		The situation regarding Wounded Knee would appear to be one of these moral and ethical issues, but the Senator steered clear of it altogether.
		During testimony on the proposed resolution the descendants claimed that 426 of their relatives were killed as a result of the attack at Wounded Knee.
	members.fortunecity.com /gwolf2/woundedknee8.html (1200 words)

	Wounded Knee
		I saw women crawling along the icy ground, after having been wounded, and who were then hunted down by those bastards in Blue and tortured purely for the enjoyment that these so called men could gain from hearing them scream out in pain and agony.
		Children running around crying for their dead mothers and fathers were clubbed across the head with rifle butts until their brains spilled out onto the snow and they fell down dead.
		Wounded braves were also tortured at the point of a bayonet and I saw several pinned to the ground by as many as five or six bayonets, until they too were dead.
	www.lakotawritings.com /Wounded_knee.html (3345 words)

	Wounded Knee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Wounded Knee, a small hamlet in South Dakota, was the site of a notorious massacre on December 29, 1890.
		Below are some links to information about what happened at Wounded Knee, as well as the events that led up to it.
		Buddy was a descendant of one of the original massacre victims, and he died there in 1973 during the AIM siege.
	www.whatchadoin.com /wow/1997/dec/Elizabeth/wknee.htm (233 words)

	Wounded Knee Survivors Assoc.
		The Wounded Knee Survivors Association members are “descendents and relatives of the Sioux Indians that were involved or killed in the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890.” The Association originated shortly after the 1890 massacre, when survivors began to ask for compensation.
		Currently, the Association is an independent organization whose goals include preserving and protecting the massacre site from exploitation and administering any memorial erected at the Wounded Knee site.
		Included are Articles of Incorporation of the Wounded Knee Survivors Association and Report of Investigation into the 1890 Battle at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.
	usd.edu /library/special/aids/AidsHtml/WoundedKneeSurvivorsAssoc..htm (563 words)

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