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Site on the Oglala Sioux Reservation, South
Dakota, USA, of a confrontation between the
US Army and American Indians. Sitting Bull
was killed, supposedly resisting arrest, on
15 Dec 1890, and on 29 Dec a group of Indians
involved in the Ghost Dance Movement (aimed
at resumption of Indian control of North
America with the aid of the spirits of dead
braves) were surrounded and 153 killed. In
1973 the militant American Indian Movement,
in the siege of Wounded Knee 27 Feb-8 May,
held hostages and demanded a government
investigation of the Indian treaties.