Wounded Knee Massacre

Burial of the dead after the massacre of Wounded Knee. U.S. Soldiers putting Indians in common grave; some corpses are frozen in different positions. South Dakota.

Today this happened in the past: The Wounded Knees Massacre December 29, 1890. 

Wounded Knee Creek (Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

"What's left of Big Foot's band": John Grabill, 1891
John C. H. Grabill - John C. H. Grabill Collection, Library of Congress

The scene three days afterwards, with several bodies partially wrapped in blankets in the foreground.

Buffalo Bill, Capt. Baldwin, Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Capt. Moss, and others, on horseback, on battlefield of Wounded Knee.

Frozen corpse on field