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ON December 29 1890 at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the US 7th Cavalry surrounded the encampment of the besieged Lakota Sioux.
When they began their onslaught with Hotchkiss machine guns, it was the cue for the slaughter of 150 men, women and children in the bitter cold.
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