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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
Sitting Bull
Red Cloud and American Horse
Wounded Knee Massacre reenactment
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