Wounded Knee—Massacre, Legacy, and Resistance

Wounded Knee was not a clash of equals. It was a slaughter. U.S. troops surrounded a Lakota encampment, demanded weapons, and then rained fire on those who’d surrendered. More than 200 died, many of them women, children, and elders. Out of that horror rose renewed resistance—like the 1973 AIM occupation—and a haunting legacy.