<Li> Drexel Mission Fight </Li> <P> The Wounded Knee Massacre (also called the Battle of Wounded Knee) occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek (Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota . </P> <P> The previous day, a detachment of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside intercepted Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them 5 miles (8.0 km) westward to Wounded Knee Creek, where they made camp . The remainder of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, led by Colonel James W. Forsyth, arrived and surrounded the encampment . The regiment was supported by a battery of four Hotchkiss mountain guns . </P> <P> On the morning of December 29, the U.S. Cavalry troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota . One version of events claims that during the process of disarming the Lakota, a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote was reluctant to give up his rifle, claiming he had paid a lot for it . Simultaneously, an old man was performing a ritual called the Ghost Dance . Black Coyote's rifle went off at that point, and the U.S. army began shooting at the Native Americans . The disarmed Lakota warriors did their best to fight back . </P>

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