On this date was a massacre of the Lakota tribe, with an estimated 250-300 Native Americans killed. This event did not mark the end of the tension against the Native Americans in the United States, but it is marked as the end of the "Indian Wars."

Picture: A photograph of the mass grave that was dug for the Lakota tribe after they were massacred.

Event Source
http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.war.056

Event date

29 Dec 1890

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Parent Chronology

Timeline of the Nineteenth-Century
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