Wounded Knee: Quick Facts

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Stone monument with an urn on top stands at Wounded Knee Cemetery in South Dakota, with colorful prayer flags tied to a fence and grassy plains in the background.

Wounded Knee Massacre

Wounded Knee, South Dakota

1973 standoff at Wounded Knee

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