Wounded
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On December 29, US troops surrounded a Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee Creek, and massacred Chief Big Foot and 300 prisoners of war, using a new rapid-fire weapon that fired exploding shells, called a Hotchkiss gun.
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This is the year of the
Wounded
Knee Massacre.
The
Wounded
Knee Massacre is considered the end of the Indian wars.
Whenever I visit the site of the mass grave at
Wounded
Knee, I see it not just as a grave for the Lakota or for the Sioux, but as a grave for all indigenous peoples.
Everything can be measured before
Wounded
Knee and after, because it was in this moment, with the fingers on the triggers of the Hotchkiss guns, that the US government openly declared its position on Native rights.
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