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Wounded Knee, located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, was the site of two conflicts between Native Americans and representatives of the U.S. government, including the U.S. Army and, later, the FBI. An 1890 massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was th...
On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, armed members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) surrender to federal authorities, ending their 71‑day siege of Wounded Knee, site of the… Read moreRead more about American Indian Movement (AIM) ends occupation of Wounded KneeNative American...
The true stories of the many wars and conflicts that have been an intrical part of U.S. history. Find out if there has ever been a time of peace in the history of the U.S.
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He survived the fall but not the attentions of a hastily-formed German reception committee, who packed him off to Soltau, a large P.O.W. camp, near Hanover. Wounded soldiers were transported to a “Lazarett“, a military hospital for prisoners of war. Wounded prisoners benefited from the ...
One point McMurtry returns to an ruminates on as a cause or at least precursor to these scenes of frenzied violence isapprehension. People get spooked. Why did a heavily armed US Army unit watching over – actually disarming – some detained Indians at Wounded Knee suddenly unleash?
I was born at Datchet in Buckinghamshire on 21 June 1816 and was the eldest son of my parents. My mother died there of milk fever on 13th March 1818, when I was twenty one months old, and the tenor of my life has probably been very different from what it would have been, had I ...
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