This is a story about the massacre of Sioux ghost dancers at
Wounded Kee in December 1890.
Under the false impression that the ghost dance was the signal for a general Indian uprising,
the white agent at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota
called in the regular army to suppress the ghost dancers.

One band under Chief Big Foot surrendered to the Seventh Cavalry,
Custer's old command. Among it's men and officers
were many who had served under Custer and who were eager to avenge his death.

At Wounded Knee Creek eighteen miles northeast of Pine Ridge,
the army opened fire with many quick-firing Hotchkiss cannon
upon Big Foot's people and killed some two hundred fifty men, women, and children.
The mass grave in which they were buried is still there.

In 1973 Indian civil rights activists occupied the site and
withstood a siege by US marshals, the FBI, and local vigalantes.
During this siege, which lasted 73 days, two Indians were killed,
one of them a local Sioux buried next to his massacred ancestors.