Remembering History: Mass grave at the Wounded Knee massacre. On 15 December 1890 Sitting Bull was shot killed. On December 28, 1890, units of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry captured a group of Minneconjou Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. The next day, as the Indians surrendered their weapons, a shot rang out the cavalry opened fire. At least 153 of the Sioux were killed (some estimate 300, out of about 350) - most of them women, children unarmed men.

Mass grave at the Wounded Knee massacre. On 15 December 1890 Sitting Bull was shot killed. On December 28, 1890, units of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry captured a group of Minneconjou Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. The next day, as the Indians surrendered their weapons, a shot rang out the cavalry opened fire. At least 153 of the Sioux were killed (some estimate 300, out of about 350) - most of them women, children unarmed men.

Mass grave at the Wounded Knee massacre. On 15 December 1890 Sitting Bull was shot killed. On December 28, 1890, units of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry captured a group of Minneconjou Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. The next day, as the Indians surrendered their weapons, a shot rang out the cavalry opened fire. At least 153 of the Sioux were killed (some estimate 300, out of about 350) - most of them women, children unarmed men.