Wounded Knee Memorial Site

On December 29, 1890, U.S. Army troops massacred approximately 300 Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee Creek in the last major military confrontation of the American Indian Wars. The mass grave where the dead were buried sits beside the Wounded Knee Memorial on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Lakota elders and visitors alike report hearing the sound of crying women and children at the grave site, seeing ghostly figures of the massacred moving across the frozen creek, and experiencing profound emotional responses — overwhelming grief, anger, or sadness — that pass suddenly when leaving the site.