dec 29, 1890 - Battle of Wounded Knee
a.k.a. Wounded Knee Massacre
Description:
-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.
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APUSH Unit 6 1865-1898
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