Pressing the Issue at Wounded Knee

Many South Dakota dailies and weeklies attacked the Sioux in print, some even calling for their extermination, both before and after the bloody clash of December 1890. Historians often cite mistakes and misunderstandings as the reason for the bloody clash that occurred on the morning of December 29, 1890, as soldiers disarmed a Sioux band …

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