WOUNDED KNEE. We should probably stop & think about this a minute

https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/wounded-knee

WOUNDED KNEE. We should probably stop & think about this a minute. December 29 is the anniversary of a US Calvary massacre of women, children and some ragtag native Americans on a South Dakota slum reservation, in 1890. First they killed old Chief Sitting Bull, of Little Big-Horn. Then they just started shooting whatever moved and then it was over. 150 - 300 people dead. Little children. Defenseless mothers. Non-threatening older peeps. The US Army mowed them down. 

The conflict at Wounded Knee was originally referred to as a battle, but in reality it was a massacre. Surrounded by heavily armed US Army Calvary, it’s unlikely that Big Foot’s little band of dancers would have intentionally started a fight. 

Historians speculate soldiers of the 7th Cavalry were deliberately taking revenge for the regiment’s defeat at Little Bighorn in 1876. Whatever the motives, the massacre ended the Ghost Dance movement and was the last major confrontation in America’s deadly war against the Plains Indians.