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Wounded Knee, SD - Massacre Site

The arrival of troops on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, to quiet the Ghost Dance disorders of 1890, provided the climate for the Wounded Knee Massacre. After Indian police killed Chief Sitting Bull while trying to arrest him on December 15th on the Standing Rock Reservation, his Hunkpapa band of the Lakota Sioux tribe grew agitated and troop reinforcements arrived.

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