American Carnage
As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot's band was headed instead to join hostile Lakotas, U.S. troops surrounded the group on Wounded Knee Creek. Tensions mounted, and on the morning of December 29, as the Lakotas prepared to give up their arms, disaster struck. Accounts vary on what triggered the violence as Indians and soldiers unleashed thunderous gunfire at each other, but the consequences were horrific: some 200 innocent Lakota men, women, and child…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8061-6906-4
- EAN: 9780806169064
- Produktnummer: 36008335
- Verlag: Univ Of Oklahoma Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 618 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D3.6 cm 1'038 g
- Gewicht: 1038
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