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Monument Dedication at Wounded Knee Honors Big Foot Massacre
Special correspondent recounts Sioux dedication of a large marble shaft at Wounded Knee on May 28. Indians mourn their dead with a woman’s lament, prayers, and songs in Sioux, followed by remarks from Rev. Cleveland and leaders like Joe Horn Cloud. The piece details Sitting Bull’s medicine, the ghost dance, and the 1890 battle that ended with heavy casualties on both sides.
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Wounded Knee
Pine Ridge
Big Foot
Custer
Northwest
W. J. Cleveland
Joe Horn Cloud
Fire Lightning
America
Ogallala
Forsythe
United States
Ta-Tan- Ka-I-Yo-Tan-Ka
Sitting Bull
Geronimo
Ft. Yates
Standing Rock
Bull
Bull Head
Wallace
Creek
Wounded Knee Creek
Little Bat
Lone Star
Captain Wallace
Pdop
Marys
Warfield
Ann W
Holden
Miss Marshalls
Mansion House
Mary Duke
Frankfort
Miss Thomas
Payne
Whitetmhan
Lewis
Jacob Tarried
Mr. Davis’ Inn
Washington
Cove
Humboldt
Whitemans
Colonel Payne
Society of Washington