At the Wounded Knee Massacre, the Lakota Indian people were massacred by the U.S. Army Cavalry on December 29, 1890. A burial party loaded the bodies onto wagons and transported them for burial.

 　At the Wounded Knee Massacre, the Lakota Indian people were massacred by the US Army's cavalry on December 29th, 1890. Afterwards, a civilian burial party transported the bodies of the victims on wagons for burial. More than 250 members of the Lakota tribe, including many women and children, were killed, and 51 were injured. 25 American soldiers were killed and 39 were injured.

　American settlers feared the religious uprising of the Ghost Dance, which was introduced to Native Americans by a Paiute shaman called Wovoka. Wovoka believed that the Ghost Dance religious practice would bring Native American ancestors back from the dead, replenish the buffalo herds, and cause the white people to disappear from the land.

　On December 15th 1890, James McLaughlin, an Indian Service agent who believed that Chief Sitting Bull was behind the Ghost Dance movement, sent the Indian Police to arrest the chief. A gun battle ensued, and Chief Sitting Bull was killed.

　The Lakota chief Sitting Bull, leading 350 followers of the Miniconjou, headed for Pine Ridge to meet with the Oglala chief Red Cloud. The group was stopped at Wounded Knee Creek, 20 miles from the Pine Ridge Agency, and forced to camp there. During the night of December 29, 1890 a stray shot set off a chain reaction, and the Lakota people, still armed, opened fire on the cavalry, who responded with artillery. Four Hotchkiss mountain guns mowed down 300 of their followers.