Wounded Knee

“The story is tragic, the scholarship exhilarating” (Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains ) in this history of the massacre of the Lakota Sioux On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300 Sioux. As acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson shows in Wounded Knee , the massacre grew out of a set of political forces all too familiar to us today: fier