On December 29, 1890, at least 150 Native Americans of the Miniconjou Lakota people, including 89 women and children, were massacred by troops from the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under the command of Colonel James Forsyth. As news of the massacre spread east from Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in …
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Inevitable Historicity 