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History is not always comfortable — but it must be remembered. In 1890, one of the darkest chapters in American history unfolded: the Wounded Knee Massacre. Hundreds of Lakota Native Americans — many of them women and children — were surrounded by U.S. cavalry during a forced disarmament. What was supposed to be a peaceful process turned into chaos and then mass killing. More than 290 unarmed Native people lost their lives. Families were torn apart. Children and elders were caught in the violence. This was not a battlefield — it was a community. This image is not about comparison for shock value. It is about memory, truth, and accountability. Too often, Indigenous history is reduced to footnotes or erased entirely. When we forget events like Wounded Knee, we repeat the same mistakes — silence becomes permission, and ignorance becomes comfort. Remembering history does not mean hating a nation. It means respecting the lives that were taken and learning from the past so it is never repeated. Truth matters. Memory matters. History matters. Let that sink in. 🔥 #TrueHistory #WoundedKnee #IndigenousHistory #fbrepost

On December 29, 1890, U.S. Army troops from the 7th Cavalry surrounded a Lakota Sioux encampment near Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota during a forced disarmament operation. Tensions escalated as soldiers attempted to confiscate weapons. After a single shot was fired under disputed circumstances, troops opened fire using rifles and Hotchkiss cannons. An estimated 150 to 300 Lakota men, women, and children were killed, many of them unarmed. As people fled, gunfire continued across the encampment. Numerous victims were later found frozen in the snow. The massacre occurred amid federal fear surrounding the Ghost Dance, a spiritual movement officials misinterpreted as a threat rather than a religious practice. Military force was deployed instead of diplomacy. Earlier that month, the killing of Lakota leader Sitting Bull intensified tensions across the region. Wounded Knee is widely regarded as marking the violent end of large scale Indigenous armed resistance on the Plains. No meaningful accountability followed, and several soldiers later received military commendations. Today, the massacre remains a defining example of state violence against Indigenous people and continues to shape debates about historical memory and justice in the United States. #WoundedKnee #December29 #USHistory #NativeHistory #Lakota #SouthDakota #HistoricalRecord #AmericanHistory #HistoryMatters