In the days leading up to this battle, the U.S. Congress decided to divide the land of the victims into five smaller areas.
In the days leading up to this battle, the U.S. Congress decided to divide the land of the victims into five smaller areas. Colonel James Forsyth ordered the natives to surrender their weapons, though Black Coyote refused and a medicine-man named Yellow Bird tried to counter the American bullets with a ghost dance, leading the Seventh Cavalry to fire into a crowd of (*) women and children. The American Indian Movement later reclaimed the site near the namesake river of what 1890 conflict, in which 146 Lakota Sioux were massacred?
In the days leading up to this battle, the U.S. Congress decided to divide the land of the victims into five smaller areas.
{Wounded Knee} massacre