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What happened at Wounded Knee?

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What happened at Wounded Knee?

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What followed next can perhaps best be told by the Commanding General, Nelson A. Miles: General Miles: “I was in command of that Department in 1889, 1890 and 1891, when what is known as the Messiah Craze and threatened uprising of the Indians occurred…the Indians had been in almost a starving condition in South Dakota, owing to the scarcity of rations and the nonfulfillment of treaties and sacred obligations under which the Government had been placed to the Indians, caused great dissatisfaction, dissension and almost hostility…During this time the tribe, under Big Foot, moved from their reservation to near Red Cloud Agency in South Dakota under a flag of truce. They numbered over four hundred souls. They were intercepted by a command under Lt. Col. Whitside, who demanded their surrender, which they complied with, and moved that afternoon some two or three miles and camped where they were directed to do, near the camp of the troops.” General Miles: “During the night Colonel Forsyth

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Years ago I read tactical analysis of that incident. The local commander had orders to disarm the Sioux. In the morning he surrounded the Sioux and started to demand they disarm. All of a sudden there was a lot of shooting. What happened? No one really knows. Of course both sides blamed the other for shooting first. A possible key is the large number of casualties. This incident has the third largest number of casualties for any Indian war 1866 to end. (Fetterman and Custer getting the credit for the others.) Neither the Sioux nor the Army commanders were stupid enough to get into a situation where they would take that kind of casualties. A good guess is that neither side wanted a fight that morning. Also note that most of the Army casualties were inflicted by friendly fire. Again it is unlikely that the Army commander was stupid enough to intentionally put his troops in that sort of situation. The, simplest solution is that some one, on which side is unknown, accidentally in panic or

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Do you know the real story. Do you know that on December 29th 1890 that members of the US Seventh Calvary ( Over 500 Enlisted Men And Officers Of The US 7th Calvary ) surrounded an encampment of Native American people of the Miniconjou Sioux and the Hunkpapa Sioux and massacred every man, woman and child of the Lakota people. You can see pictures here on this page of the dead Native Americans who were murdered that day. Because that is actually what happened is that those Native American Men, Women, and Children were murdered. The White Man called it a battle and did you know that the most Medals of Honor ever awarded in a single battle were awarded. If you can believe it their were 20 Medals of Honor awarded for the actions that day by members of the US 7th Calvary. Those 20 medals should be revoked and the names of the men who won them should be removed from the record book. It was the highest number of Medals of Honor ever issued for a single US battle. And it was not a battle it wa

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