As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota\'s Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace.
Accounts vary on what triggered the viol.
Tensions mounted, and on the morning of December 29, as the Lakotas prepared to give up their arms, disaster struck. troops surrounded the group on Wounded Knee Creek.
Fearing that Big Foot\'s band was headed instead to join "hostile" Lakotas, U.
S.
As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota\'s Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace