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Disaster at Wounded Knee

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Military events · 29 December 1890
The Wounded Knee Massacre

Wounded Knee Creek massacre and burial landscape · United States

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Why editors use it here
Collection-based account of Ghost Dance suppression, confinement, disarmament, shooting, families, and later remembrance.
1. Quick read
  On 29 December 1890, the U.S.
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2. Trigger and conditions
  Cavalry intercepted the group and escorted it to Wounded Knee.
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3. Uncertainty
  Victim totals vary because names, bodies, later deaths, and military reports do not align.
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4. Why it matters
  The massacre shows how officials can convert a religious movement and displaced families into a security threat, then describe overwhelming fire as combat.
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