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Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre

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On December 29, 1890, five hundred American troops massed around hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and youngsters close to Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Outnumbered and demoralized, the Sioux posed no threat to the warriors and put up no resistance. But in a chaotic scene, the Americans opened fire with howitzers, killing just about 300 Sioux in what would transform referred to as the Wounded Knee Massacre. On this definitive account, acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson shows that the origins of this quintessential American tragedy lay now not within the West but in Washington, where would-be lawmakers, locked in a desperate midterm-election battle, sought to drum up votes through an age-old political tool: fear.

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