Wounded Knee Massacre

Examples of Wounded Knee Massacre in the following topics:

• The Decimation of the Great Bison Herds and the Fight for the Black Hills

  • Major battles for the Black Hills included the Battle of the Rosebud, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Battle of Slim Butte, and the Fort Robinson Massacre.
  • However, the most renowned, as well as the most brutal of the battles over the Black Hills, is the massacre which took place at Wounded Knee.
  • The Wounded Knee Massacre happened on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek (Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
  • Whitside, intercepted Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them 5 miles westward (8 km) to Wounded Knee Creek, where they made camp.
  • By the time it was over, at least 150 men, women, and children of the Lakota Sioux had been killed and 51 wounded (4 men, 47 women and children, some of whom died later); some estimates placed the number of dead at 300.

• The American Indian Wars

  • Major battles for the Black Hills included the Battle of the Rosebud, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Battle of Slim Butte, and the Fort Robinson Massacre.
  • However, the most renowned, as well as the most brutal of the battles over the Black Hills, is the massacre which took place at Wounded Knee.
  • The Wounded Knee Massacre happened on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek (Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
  • Whitside, intercepted Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them 5 miles westward to Wounded Knee Creek, where they made camp.
  • By the time it was over, at least 150 men, women, and children of the Lakota Sioux had been killed and 51 wounded (4 men, 47 women and children, some of whom died later); some estimates placed the number of dead at 300.

• Indian Resistance and Survival

  • Defeats included the Sioux Uprising of 1862, the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), and Wounded Knee in 1890.

• The Boston Massacre and Military Occupation

  • The Boston Massacre was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which nine British Army soldiers killed five colonial civilian men.
  • The Boston Massacre, called The Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five colonial civilian men.
  • The soldiers fired into the crowd without orders, killing three people and wounding others.
  • Two more people died later of wounds sustained in the incident.
  • A sensationalized portrayal of the skirmish, later to become known as the "Boston Massacre," between British soldiers and citizens of Boston on March 5, 1770.

• White Terror

  • Its first chapter, established in Grant Parish, Louisiana, was made up of many of the same local Confederate veterans who had participated in the earlier Colfax massacre, in April 1873.
  • The Coushatta Massacre occurred in another Red River parish: the local White League forced six Republican officeholders to resign and promise to leave the state.
  • More than 2,000 persons were killed, wounded and otherwise injured in Louisiana within a few weeks prior to the Presidential election of November 1868.
  • The KKK killed and wounded more than 200 black Republicans, hunting and chasing them through the woods.

• The Railroad Strikes

  • Nonetheless, his request came to pass on July 21, when militiamen bayoneted and fired on rock-throwing strikers, killing twenty people and wounding twenty-nine others.
  • Sixteen citizens were shot by state militia in the Reading Railroad Massacre.
  • Preludes to the massacre include: fresh work stoppage of all classes of the railroad's local workforce, mass marches, blocking of rail traffic, trainyard arson, and the burning down of the bridge providing this railroad's only link to the west - to prevent local militia from being mustered to Harrisburg or Pittsburgh.
  • The headline of the Chicago Times read, "Terrors Reign, The Streets of Chicago Given Over to Howling Mobs of Thieves and Cutthroats. " Order was finally restored, however, with the deaths of nearly 20 men and boys, the wounding of scores more, and the loss of property valued in the millions of dollars.
  • During the course of the strike, 13 strikers were killed and 57 were wounded.

• The Defense Buildup and the "Evil Empire"

  • Reagan labeled the act a "massacre" and responded to the incident by suspending all Soviet passenger air service to the United States; he also dropped several agreements being negotiated with the Soviets, wounding them financially.

• The Election of 1960

  • In addition, Nixon had to cease campaigning for two weeks early in the campaign to recover from a knee injury.
  • Thus, he wound up wasting time visiting states that he had no chance of winning and states that had few electoral votes.

• Clinton and Foreign Policy

  • Army Rangers and members of Delta Force spent hours battling their way through the streets; 84 soldiers were wounded and 19 died.
  • In 1998, while visiting Rwanda, Clinton apologized for having done nothing to save the lives of the 800,000 massacred in 100 days of genocidal slaughter.

• The Allied Push

  • Although Germans continued fighting on the Eastern Front, the Battle of Stalingrad, marked by constant close quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians by air raids, is often regarded as one of the single largest (nearly 2.2 million personnel) and bloodiest (1.7–2 million wounded, killed or captured) battles in the history of warfare.
  • However, the largest of these in Warsaw where German soldiers massacred 200,000 civilians and a national uprising in Slovakia did not receive Soviet support and were subsequently suppressed by the Germans.