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
and northernTexas. Early in 1890 it reached theSiouxand coincided with the rise of the Sioux outbreak of late 1890, for which thecultwas wrongly blamed. This outbreak culminated in theMassacre at Wounded Knee,South Dakota, where the “ghost shirts” failed to protect the wearers, as promised...