Big Foot, Chief b. 1823 d. December 29, 1890 Native American Chief. Big Foot and his people lived on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota and were among the strongest belivers in the Ghost Dance ceremony when it arrived among the Lakota in the spring of 1890. The hunger and misery that had followed the final break-up of the reservation in 1889 made the Lakota keenly receptive to the Ghost Dance message of messianic renewal, and the movement swept rapidly through their encampments, causing local Indian Agents to react with alarm...[Read More] (Bio by: Mongoose) Wounded Knee Monument, Pine Ridge, Shannon County, South Dakota, USA Plot: Mass Grave
In the spring or summer of 1890, Lost Bird was born somewhere on the prairies of South Dakota. Fate took her to Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation on Dec. 29, 1890.
On that tragic day, hundreds of Lakota men, women and children died in a confrontation with U.S. troops and the woman who likely was the child's mother was among them. But as she was dying, she and her baby found some scanty shelter from the bitter...[Read More] (Bio by: DanaD.) Wounded Knee Monument, Pine Ridge, Shannon County, South Dakota, USA
Wounded Knee Monument Wounded Knee monument on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. On December 29, 1890, the Sioux chief Big Foot and some 350 of his followers camped on the banks of Wounded Knee creek. They were surrounded by US troops who were to disarm and arrest them. Sitting Bull had been murdered just days before. During a meeting to try and come to a truce, a shot from an unknown party was fired; this anonymous shot started the massacre. Indians ran to get their guns and defend themselves, but the...[Read More] Wounded Knee Monument, Pine Ridge, Shannon County, South Dakota, USA
b. 1823 d. December 29, 1890