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- Aftermath of the Wounded Knee massacre, following a botched . . . - Reddit
Aftermath of the Wounded Knee massacre, following a botched attempt at disarming native Sioux people in 1890 The U S government would issue 20 medals of honor for this action
- On this day in 1890, the U. S. Army committed the Wounded Knee Massacre . . .
Wounded Knee Massacre (1890) Image Transcription: A line of U S troops in the background, and the Indian encampment at Wounded Knee This is not the actual battle from 1890 but only its 1913 reenactment From the Library of Congress [Wikipedia] On this day in 1890, the U S Army committed the Wounded Knee Massacre, slaughtering hundreds of Lakota people, most of whom were women, children, or
- The Wounded Knee Massacre: The Forgotten History of the Native . . . - Reddit
Black Elk, one of the few Lakota survivors of the Wounded Knee Massacre, recalled in 1931: “I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw with eyes still young And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard
- Medals of Honor for soldiers who perpetrated Wounded Knee massacre may . . .
The My Lai massacre is an interesting case study in the debate between command responsibility and "Befehl ist Befehl" It's interesting you mention the Philippines, because the doctrine of command responsibility or the "Yamashita standard" was first applied to a Japanese general for the war crimes of his soldiers in the Philippines
- Flaired user in r AskHistorians claims that Wounded Knee was . . . - Reddit
Flaired user in r AskHistorians claims that Wounded Knee was not a massacre Bow wow wow, yippee yo yippee yay, what bad history do we have today?
- TIL: The Wounded Knee Massacre took place in 1890. Bioshock . . . - Reddit
Booker DeWitt is a man of partial Native American descent, [7] who was born on April 19, 1874 At the age of sixteen, he was a member of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army and took part in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 At Wounded Knee, a sergeant had accused him of having Native American lineage in front of the men in his unit
- Wounded Knee Massacre - 1960 (Artist Oscar Howe) - Reddit
I’m a big fan of the Mexican mural art style It appears the artist thought the Hotchkiss guns the Army used at the massacre were pepper mill-style repeating guns based on the gun at the left of the painting, but they were actually small cannons
- Was the Ghost Dance seen as a real threat? Was the religion . . . - Reddit
So, to summarize: Yes, it was seen as a real threat—especially among the Lakota—but this largely went away after Wounded Knee This brief panic was almost entirely stoked by yellow journalism, and probably gained credence because of the recent history of the US conflicts with the Lakota
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