C. T. Suddeth

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Wounded Knee Massacre: December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the 7^th Cavalry captured 2 bands of Lakota Sioux. While disarming the warriors, an argument broke out. The soldiers opened fire, using 4 Hotchkiss mountain guns (small howitzer cannons) Warriors fought back but were unarmed.

The wounded Lakota froze to death, because the army ignored them. Possibly 50 women and children survived. A few warriors escaped and fought back. Up to 300 Lakota were slaughtered, about half of them children. 31 soldiers also died.

It is widely believed the 7^th Cavalry opened fire as revenge for Custer’s Massacre 14 years earlier. 129 years later, my heart still weeps.