Last Battle: Causes and Effects of the Massacre at Wounded Knee

A few days after Christmas 1890, U.S. cavalry troops fired on a band of Lakota Sioux. Chaos broke out, and in the end nearly 300 Lakota lay dead. The massacre at Wounded Knee marked the final conflict between the Sioux and the U.S. Army. How would it affect the lives of the Lakota and change the United States? Cause and Effect, History is more than just our past. Decisions made long ago affect us even today. Explore the causes leading up to major events in American Indian history. Then exam...