Nearly 130 years after hundreds of Native Americans were killed by U.S. troops, this descendant of a notorious military commander is apologizing for the Wounded Knee Massacre | NowThis

33K views · 170 reactions | In December of 1890, a band of Lakota was traveling from the Cheyenne River Reservation to Pine Ridge. They were overtaken by the US Army's 7th Calvary and escorted to a campsite near Wounded Knee Creek where they were ordered to surrender their arms. On December 29, while the Lakota were being disarmed, a shot was fired, and within less than an hour 200 Lakota men, women, and children lay dead or dying. | SDPB | Facebook

The Wounded Knee occupation began on February 27, 1973. But do you know about the massacre of Indigenous people there 83 years before? | AJ