“Wounded Knee Massacre”
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“Wounded Knee Massacre”
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306658.book-part-057

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Abstract

This photograph shows a detail party preparing a pit in which to bury the Lakota victims of the massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in late December 1890. The massacre marked the end of the Indian Wars of the nineteenth century. It was also one of the worst atrocities ever leveled against Native Americans. Between 250 and 300 Lakota, most of them women, children, and other noncombatants, died in the massacre.

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