![]() The Army was catering to the anxiety of settlers who called the conflict the Messiah War and were worried the Ghost Dance signified a potentially dangerous Sioux resurgence. The regiment was supported by a battery of four Hotchkiss mountain guns. Forsyth, arrived and surrounded the encampment. The remainder of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, led by Colonel James W. Whitside approached Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them five miles (eight kilometers) westward to Wounded Knee Creek, where they made camp. ![]() 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. The previous day, a detachment of the U.S. military called the Pine Ridge Campaign, occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek ( Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, following a botched attempt to disarm the Lakota camp. ![]() The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army. ![]()
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