December 29th, 1890

On December 29, 1890 the 6th Cavalry of the US Army rode toward the camp of Big Foot and his tribe of 350 Lakhota Sioux that were camped on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek.

The soldiers were of ignominious 7th Cavalry once commanded by the ego of

Colonel George Armstrong Custer.

The encampment was comprised of mostly children and elderly. Young braves were out hunting for game to feed the tribe. Below are actual photos of what they found on their return. 

The traditional life of the Sioux had been ripped from them. White devils had murdered all of the buffalo that the Sioux depended upon for physical and spiritual sustenance. 

The "Human Beings" were forced onto reservations by the Army soldiers and Indian agents. They were forced to survive on small patches of land and meager rations doled out by the government. 

Sitting Bull was murdered by the Army on the Standing Rock Reservation, December 15th. Chief Big Foot realized that he was next on their list. He surrendered to the Army on December 28th. Driving the Indians toward the Pine Ridge Reservation the Army forced them to camp on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek. While sitting smoking in council with Army officers a shot range out in the camp. This was the only excuse needed for the soldiers to open fire on the residents. As women and children ran for their lives, the Army opened up with a Hodgekiss (machine) Gun from the hill above the river. 

Over 300 Human Beings were slaughtered as the Army finally took revenge for Colonel Custer and his troop of murders. The soldiers were merciless, chasing women, children, and braves carrying elders away from the conflagration. Afterward, the soldiers dug a long, large hole and dumped the corpses into a mass unmarked grave. It was the end of the rights of natives to the land. 

Those rights have never been restored. 

More than 1,000 Lakota residents were murdered in the decade preceding the 1973 face off between members of the American Indian Movement and the FBI. To date, none of those murders have been solved. All cases list "person or persons unknown" as the perpetrators. 

A very sad chapter in the History of The United States of America.