Tribes of the Sioux Nation by Michael G Johnson

Author:Michael G Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Tribes of the Sioux Nation
ISBN: 9781780969923
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Curley, the famous Crow scout who brought the news of Custer’s defeat to the US Army headquarters on the steamer Far West, thereafter becoming something of a celebrity. Here he wears a loop necklace, and holds a shield trimmed with eagle feathers. Unknown photographer, c1900. (Photograph, author’s collection)

A band of Ghost Dancers from Cheyenne River under Big Foot, heading south for the Bad Lands presumably to join Kicking Bear and Short Bull, was intercepted by Maj Whitside and escorted to Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation. By a twist of fate the troops who now held Big Foot’s band were from the 7th Cavalry, cut to pieces on the Little Bighorn 14 years earlier. On 29 December 1890 the soldiers, now under the command of Col Forsyth, surrounded the Indian camp; and during the confrontation that followed soldiers using rifles and howitzers killed 300 men, women and children. The dead were buried in a common grave, which remains today a memorial to the long sufferings of the Sioux people over the past three and a half centuries.

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