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The Battle at Wounded Knee, also known as The Battle at Wounded Knee Creek was the last major armed conflict between the Oglala Lakota and the United States. On December 29th, 1890, 500 troops of the U.S. surrounded an encampment of Miniconjou Sioux and Hunkpapa Sioux with orders to escort them to Omaha, Nebraska. One day prior, the Sioux had given up their protracted flight from the troops, and willingly agreed to turn themselves in at the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota. As the Indians were disarmed, someone fired a gun and the troops assumed that it was an Indian and opened fire. By the time it was over, more than 300 men, women and children of the Lakota Sioux lay dead. Twenty-five troopers also died during the massacre.

Information Provided By- America: Pathways to the Present(page 265) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre