29 Dez 1890 Jahr - Battle of Wounded Knee a.k.a. Wounded Knee Massacre

Beschreibung:

-Occurred in the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota
-A battle between the U.S. Army and the Dakota Sioux, in which several hundred Native Americans and 29 U.S. soldiers died
-Tensions erupted violently over two major issues: the Sioux practice of the "Ghost Dance," which the U.S. government had outlawed, and the dispute over whether Sioux reservation land would be broken up because of the Dawes Act.