— SLAUGHTER AT Wounded Knee Creek — Under a sky the color of gunmetal, Chief Spotted Elk and his mixed band of about 350 Miniconjou Lakota and Hunkpapa Sioux tramped through a blanket of snow toward the Pine Ridge Reservation tucked into the southwestern corner of South Dakota, near Wounded Knee Creek.
Despite falling ill with pneumonia, Spotted Elk, also referred to as Chief Big Foot, left Standing Rock Agency [...]
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