Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Roa
β Heather Cox Richardson
π Library
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2011
π Basic Books
π English
On December 29, 1890, five hundred American troops massed around hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Outnumbered and demoralized, the Sioux posed no threat to the soldiers and put up no resistance. But in a chaotic scene, the Americans ope