Wounded Knee

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– Posted on 30 March 2011Posted in: Cemetery, Cemetery, Photos, Tombstone Tuesday

On December 29, 1890, troops of the U.S. 7th Cavalry massacred about 146 Lakota Sioux men, women and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.   They were buried in a mass grave at the site of the massacre.

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