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spazzmann

(748 posts)
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 02:11 PM Dec 2012

Today in Peace and Justice history on December 29, 1890

The U.S. Army killed approximately 300 Oglala Sioux at Wounded Knee, in the new state of South Dakota. The 7th Cavalry (Custer's old command) fired their artillery amidst mostly unarmed women, children, and fleeing men. The Wounded Knee Massacre was the final major military battle in the genocide against Native Americans. http://
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