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Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.
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Wounded Knee Massacre
1890 South Dakota massacre of Lakota
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Land service branch of the U.S. military
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Lakota people
Indigenous people of the Great Plains
The Lakota are a Native American people. Also known as the Teton Sioux, they are one of the three prominent subcultures of the Sioux people, with the Eastern Dakota (Santee) and Western Dakota. Their current lands are in North and South Dakota. They speak Lakȟótiyapi — the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Drexel Mission Fight
1890 armed confrontation between Lakota warriors and the United States Army
The Drexel Mission Fight was an armed confrontation between Lakota warriors and the United States Army that took place on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota on December 30, 1890, the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. The fight occurred on White Clay Creek…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
December 30
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