Category Archives: Official Reports

Posts of official U.S. Government reports including those submitted through the War Department and the Department of the Interior.

Lakota Casualties at Wounded Knee

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Sam Russell

The number of Lakota that were killed as a result of Wounded Knee has remained an unknown question that the Army, reporters, historians, and, perhaps most importantly, the survivors and their relatives have wrestled with since the day of the engagement. … Continue reading →

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At The Dance

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Sam Russell

Big Foot, ordered all the Indians belonging to the ghost dance to procure all the guns and cartridges possible to obtain and to stay together in one camp. There is no longer any doubt that the Indians are all well … Continue reading →

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B Troop, 7th Cavalry, Pine Ridge, S.D., Jan. 18th, 1891

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Sam Russell

L. T. Butterfield was one of the many photographers that converged on the Pine Ridge Reservation in January 1891 following the affair at Wounded Knee. The photographer from Chadron, Nebraska captured this image of a formation of cavalrymen of B … Continue reading →

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