In 1890, the U.S. Army herded hundreds of Lakota Sioux Americans into a clearing near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, ordered them to hand over their weapons, and then opened fire, killing as many ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday that the soldiers who massacred as many as 300 mostly unarmed members of a band of the Lakota people at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890 would keep their ...