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Analysis Of The Wounded Knee Massacre

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The Wounded Knee Massacre was Located on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South-Western South Dakota. It occurred on December 29,1890. When researching, I learned that the Wounded Knee was between North American Indians and U.S government representatives. According to my research, On December 29,1890, the U.S Army allegedly surrounded a group of Lakota Sioux Indians near Wounded Knee Creek and demanded for them to surrender their weapons. According to historians (2009), the U.S troops were sent to arrest the leader, Chief Bigfoot. When they didn’t comply, a fight broke out between the Indians and the U.S government representatives, troops, because a single shot was shot; but till this day historians don’t know who fired the first shot for them
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