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OmahaBlueDog

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Wed Dec 26, 2012, 09:53 PM Dec 2012

December 29, 1890

When the smoke cleared and the shooting stopped, approximately 300 Sioux were dead, Big Foot among them. Twenty-five soldiers lost their lives. As the remaining troopers began the grim task of removing the dead, a blizzard swept in from the North. A few days later they returned to complete the job. Scattered fighting continued, but the massacre at Wounded Knee effectively squelched the Ghost Dance movement and ended the Indian Wars.


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December 29, 1890 (Original Post) OmahaBlueDog Dec 2012 OP
thank you for reminding us niyad Dec 2012 #1
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