Massacres & mob attacks
Wounded Knee Massacre
29 December 1890Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD
The Seventh Cavalry killed some 250 to 300 Lakota - mostly unarmed, many women and children - while disarming Spotted Elk's band on Pine Ridge.
- People killed
- 250–300
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