1890年12月29日发生的伤膝河大屠杀 (Wounded Knee Massacre),是指美军在南达科他州伤膝河附近屠杀250多名美洲原住民的事件,其中大部分是拉科塔族(Lakota)的Miniconjou人(拉科塔人的一个分支,他们以前居住在现今南达科他州西部从布莱克山到普拉特河的地区)。虽然美国政府将这次事件定义为“战斗”,但大多数美洲原...
The article recalls the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota on December 29, 1890 spurred from the conflict between the U.S. 7th Cavalry and the Lakota Sioux under chief Big Foot. The 7th Cavalry brought the group from its Cheyenne River camp to the Pine Ridge reservation. The massacre ...
The article recalls the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota on December 29, 1890 spurred from the conflict between the U.S. 7th Cavalry and the Lakota Sioux under chief Big Foot. The 7th Cavalry brought the group from its Cheyenne ...
Eyewitness to a Massacre Philip Wells was a mixed-blood Sioux who served as an interpreter for the Army. He later recounted what he saw that Monday morning: "I was interpreting for General Forsyth (Forsyth was actually a colonel) just before the battle of Wounded Knee, December 29, 1890. ...
On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300 Sioux. As acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson shows in Wounded Knee , the massacre grew out of a se...
Wounded Knee Massacre Wounded Knee Battlefield, South Dakota. Photo by Kathy Alexander. The Wounded Knee Massacre, a regrettable and tragic clash of arms occurring on December 29, 1890, was the last significant engagement betweenNative Americansandsoldierson the North American Continent, ending nearly...
“The ‘Battle at Wounded Knee’ on December 29, 1890 was no battle,”Semans wrote to Trump. “It was a massacre. … The 7th Cavalry, which was obligated by treaty to protect my ancestors, instead hunted my ancestors, surrounded them, and gunned hundreds of them down. This included...
Nearly half of the Sioux killed at the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre were women and children. Wounded Knee Massacre On December 29, the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry surrounded a band of Ghost Dancers under Big Foot, a Lakota Sioux chief, near Wounded Knee Creek and demanded they surrender their...
A Massacre, A Park, A Farce... Wounded Knee. December 29, 1890. A keg of whiskey. Hotchkiss guns. Retribution for Custer's demise. A King of Thieves. Issues, names so common almost a cause to ignore. Enough... Enough? Move on, along. ...
Army. So too is the massacre at Wounded Knee. Massacre or battle? By whose definitions are such things determined. On one hand, when Indians killed a number of whites it was commonly referred to as a massacre, such as Fetterman Massacre of December 21, 1866. It is interesting to note ...