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Remembrance of the Battle of Wounded Knee Echoes
In Washington memories of the Indian wars fade yet the article recalls the 1890 Wounded Knee clash between Col Forsythe’s Seventh Cavalry and Sioux under Sitting Bull. It details Fechet’s night march, ghost shirts, police casualties, and the deaths of Bull Head and Sitting Bull, plus Cheyenne resistance and brutal battlefield deaths.
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Ashington
United States Army
Wounded Knee
Washington
Col. Forsythe
Seventh Cavalry
Big Foot
Sitting Bull
Custer
East
Edward G. Fechet
University of Iineis
Fechet
Plains
Standing Rock
North Dakota
Messiah
Miles
Lieut
Bull Head
Sergt
Shave Head
Fort Yates
Eighth Cavalry
Oak Creek
Dakota
Vechet
Catch-the-Bear
Strike-the- Kettle
Sergi
Pine Ridge
Maj. Lewis
Wessels
Capt. Wessels