page_title: Wounded Knee Creek
hierarchical_section_title: Wounded Knee Creek
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a modified version of a map taken from a US governmnet made national atlas that shows the Wounded Knee Creek.
context_page_description: Wounded Knee Creek is a tributary of the White River, approximately 100 miles long, in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota in the United States. Its Lakota name is Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála.
  The creek's name recalls an incident when a Native American sustained an injury to his knee during a fight.
  The creek rises in the southwestern corner of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, along the state line with Nebraska, and flows northwest. It borders the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, in which the 7th US Cavalry under Colonel James W. Forsyth massacred approximately 300 Sioux, mostly women and children, many unarmed. Towns in this region include Wounded Knee and Manderson. The Wounded Knee Creek flows NNW across the reservation and joins the White south of Badlands National Park.
context_section_description: Wounded Knee Creek is a tributary of the White River, approximately 100 miles (160 km) long, in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota in the United States. Its Lakota name is Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála.
  The creek's name recalls an incident when a Native American sustained an injury to his knee during a fight.
  The creek rises in the southwestern corner of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, along the state line with Nebraska, and flows northwest. It borders the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, in which the 7th US Cavalry under Colonel James W. Forsyth massacred approximately 300 Sioux, mostly women and children, many unarmed. Towns in this region include Wounded Knee and Manderson. The Wounded Knee Creek flows NNW across the reservation and joins the White south of Badlands National Park.
caption: The Wounded Knee Creek is shown highlighted in red.
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