American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890

by Jerome A. Greene

Book Overview

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. Fearing that Big Foot's band was headed instead to join "hostile" Lakotas, U.S. troops surrounded the group on Wounded Knee Creek. Tensions mounted, and on the morning of December 29, as the Lakotas prepared to give up their arms, disaster...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806144483
• ISBN13: 9780806144481
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 618 Pages
• Weight: 2.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"