Parsons, Jim
THE LEGACY OF WOUNDED KNEE THE SPIRIT OF THE 1973 WOUNDED KNEE OCCUPATION LIVES ON IN THE OGLALA REFORMERS WHO DRAW ON THEIR TRIBAL HERITAGE TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS ON THE PINE RIDGE RESERVATIONDaniel Golden, Globe Staff
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
Wounded Knee Massacre (December 29, 1890) was the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by U.S. Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. The massacre was the climax of the U.S. Army’s late 19th-century eff