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cp 2011 Wounded Knee

Burial of the dead at the battle of Wounded Knee, S.D. [South Dakota].

 

On reverse: Showing trench for burial of Indian dead in which were placed 84 men and 64 women and children, killed in affair with Big Foot's Siouxs at Wounded Knee, S.D. Dec. 29 1890.

 

Photo by Northwestern Photo Co, Chadron, Nebraska.

 

Selected by Mike - I wouldn't call any of these three a favorite photograph, but I would say it's important that they not be forgotten. The Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives has other pictures from this series.

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Uploaded on April 16, 2008
Taken on April 16, 2008