and generals such as Sherman and Sheridan, were redeployed west to subdue Plains Indians. This campaign took five times as long as the Civil War, until the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee, in 1890, all but extinguished resistance.
What was the significance of the Mountain Meadows Massacre? What is the Genocide Convention? What was the California genocide? What was the Romanian genocide? What was the Dorr Rebellion? What atrocities took place at Wounded Knee? What was the Cambodian genocide?
Wounded Knee is a settlement on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota that was the site of two conflicts between Native Americans and the U.S. government—a massacre in 1890 in which 150-300 Lakota were killed by the U.S. Army and an occupati