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Wounded Knee Massacre - Wikipedia

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The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The previous day, a detachment of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside intercepted Spotted Elk's band of ...
Location‎: ‎Wounded Knee Creek‎, ‎South Dakota
Date‎: ‎December 29, 1890
Result‎: ‎U.S. victory

U.S. Army massacres Indians at Wounded Knee - Dec 29, 1890 ...

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On this day in History, U.S. Army massacres Indians at Wounded Knee on Dec 29, 1890. Learn more about what happened today on History. ... As that was happening, a fight broke out between an Indian and a U.S. soldier and a shot was fired, although it's unclear from which side. A brutal massacre followed, in which it's ...

Texas church massacre among the deadliest US mass shootings | Fox ...

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Nov 5, 2017 - At least 20 people were feared dead Sunday after a shooting took place at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

The Horrific Sand Creek Massacre Will Be Forgotten No More | History ...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/.../horrific-sand-creek-massacre-will-be-forgotten-n...
The opening of a national historic site in Colorado helps restore to public memory one of the worst atrocities ever perpetrated on Native Americans. ... When war broke out, he volunteered to fight rather than preach, leading Union troops to victory at Glorieta Pass, in New Mexico, against a Confederate force that sought to ...

The worst mass shooting? A look back at massacres in U.S. history

www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-mass-shooting-20160614-snap-story.html
Jun 14, 2016 - After news broke Sunday of the gunman who stormed an Orlando, Fla., nightclub, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others, news organizations began comparing the attack with other high-profile mass shootings. Advertisement. The Los Angeles Times, like many outlets, called it "the deadliest in American ...

Remember the Massacre at Wounded Knee - Jacobin

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/wounded-knee-massacre-lakota-us-army
Dec 29, 2016 - Few Americans now know that the deadliest shootings in US history were massacres of native peoples. Today is the anniversary of the ... Sioux Nation of Indians that the taking of the Black Hills, in fact, had broken the Fort Laramie Treaty and awarded the Sioux compensation. Although due to compound ...

Las Vegas massacre is deadliest shooting in modern US history | New ...

https://nypost.com/2017/.../death-toll-rises-to-50-in-las-vegas-music-festival-massacre/
Oct 2, 2017 - A gunman carried out the deadliest mass shooting in US history by opening fire at a Las Vegas outdoor music concert — killing at least 50 people and ... He added that “numerous firearms” had been located in the room he had occupied at his Mandalay Bay room, which a SWAT team broke into with a ...

Deadliest shooting in modern US history leaves at least 59 dead, 500+ ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/02/shooter-las-vegas-strip-police.html
Oct 2, 2017 - Deadliest shooting in modern US history leaves at least 59 dead, 500+ injured in Las Vegas ... It was the deadliest shooting massacre in modern U.S. history. ... Drapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, on the Las Vegas Strip following a deadly ...

Las Vegas shooting massacre - Evening Standard

https://www.standard.co.uk › News › World
Oct 2, 2017 - At least 58 people were killed and more than 515 injured in the worst mass shooting in modern US history when a gunman opened fire on crowds at an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas. Thousands fled as the killer — named as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock — fired from a room on the 32nd floor of a ...

Was Orlando the Deadliest Mass Shooting in U.S. History? - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/06/orlando-deadliest-mass.../487058/
Jun 15, 2016 - In the aftermath of the Orlando shooting, some publications called the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890 the deadliest shooting in American history. There, as many of 300—mostly unarmed—Lakota Sioux men, ... “Records are made to be broken,” Fox says. “We keep on saying it and there are other people ...

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