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I see that there is an issue with the Wounded Knee Creek Massacre Article first it said 300 were killed / wounded now it says 178. The numbers keep increasing and decreasing. Does anyone else notice this??

~evangeline ♥

Unesessary Deaths ( Wounded Knee Creek Massacre)
After the death of Sitting Bull, Big Foot feared the safety of his small band which only consisted of widows and their children. There was currently a warrant for Big Foot's arrest. He led his people toward Pine Ridge, hoping they could be protected by Red Cloud. During the trip Big Foot feoll ill from pneumonia. "On December 28 Big Foot and his band was met by Major Samuel Whitside of the Seventh Cavalry.

Whitside informed Big Foot of his orders to escort the band to their camp on Wounded Knee Creek. Big Foot replied traveling to Wounded Knee Creek was their intentions. Led by two cavalry troops they proceeded too the camp. The other two troops brung up the rear with their Hotchkiss guns.

They reached the camp and the indians were counted as following: 120 men abd 230 women and children. Major Whitside decided he would wait till morning to disarm the band.

Two troops of Cavalry were posted around the Indian tents, ensuring that there was no escape. The chkiss guns where aimed directly toward the lodges. Colonel Forsyth took over command of the operation. Whitside was ordered to take the band to the train station to be shipped to a military prison in Omaha.

In the morning the indians were informed they would be disarmed, they stacked their guns in the center of the camp. Though not satisfied the soldiers proceeded to enter the tents and completely disarmed the camp of all forms of weapins, bringing our bundles of knives,tent stakes and axes and throwing them into the pile also. The indians became very angry but were resured by Medicine Man who began dancing a few steps of the Ghost Dance which was believed to protect the Indians from bullets from their enemies. THe troops searched the warriors for weapons and a rifle was found belonging too the young Souix man, Black Coyote. Being deaf he did not respond promptly to the soldiers orders. Black Coyote is not to blame for the start of the shootings, he could have been convinced by the Souix to give up the rifle, but the soldiers did not allow this to be an option.They grabbed him spun him around and a shot was heard. The source is still unclear but it was said to began the chaos and killing. The Hotchkiss guns shredded the lodges, killing men, women and children. The only defence or arms the Indians had were what they could quickly grab from the pile. When this ended, 153 were counted dead including Big Foot. Many were wounded or escaped and died elsewhere. One estimate placed the death toll at 350 men, women, and children. 25 Soldiers died and 39 were left wounded they headed back for the Pine Ridge agency. A detail of soldiers were sent to gather the wounded who were still alive at the camp, 4 Souix men and 47 women and children. As a Blizzard came the dead were left to freeze where they fell. I did not know then how much was ended. ~evangeline ♥ ~

- When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. . . . the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead. Black Elk