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Wounded Knee Massacre: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date December 29, 1890
Location South Dakota • United States • Wounded Knee
Participants Oceti Sakowin • Teton • United States
Context Dawes General Allotment Act • Treaties of Fort Laramie

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Wounded Knee Massacre
Negotiation of the Treaty of Fort Laramie
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Lakota camp
Depiction of the Oceti Sakowin people
Ghost Dance
Letter from Buffalo Bill
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