Wounded Knee Creek

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Wounded Knee Creek is a stream on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, historically known as the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre of Lakota Sioux.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Wounded Knee Creek canonical 3
Wounded Knee, South Dakota 3
Wounded Knee 2

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf river
stream
country United States of America
flowsThrough Oglala Lakota County
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
South Dakota
hasAssociatedLeader Big Foot
James W. Forsyth
Spotted Elk
hasAssociatedMilitaryUnit 7th Cavalry Regiment
hasAssociatedOrganization United States Army
hasAssociatedPeople Hunkpapa Lakota
Sioux people
surface form: Lakota Sioux

Miniconjou Lakota
Oglala Lakota
hasAssociatedSettlement Wounded Knee Creek self-linksurface differs
surface form: Wounded Knee, South Dakota
hasCategory Bodies of water of Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota
Massacre sites in the United States
Rivers of South Dakota
Sites of Native American history in South Dakota
hasCoordinateType geographic coordinates
hasCulturalSignificance symbol of Native American resistance and suffering
hasEtymology named for an incident involving a wounded knee
hasHistoricalEvent Wounded Knee Massacre
hasHistoricalEventDate 1890-12-29
hasHistoricalEventType massacre
hasHistoricalEventYear 1890
hasHistoricalSignificance site of Wounded Knee Massacre
hasMemorialNearby Wounded Knee Monument
surface form: Wounded Knee Massacre Monument
hasMouthNear White River (Great Plains)
surface form: White River (South Dakota)
hasNameInLanguage English
hasNearbyHistoricSite Wounded Knee Monument
surface form: Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark
hasNotablePeriod late 19th century
hasSourceRegion Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
locatedIn Great Plains
Oglala Lakota County
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Shannon County
South Dakota
locatedOn Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
surface form: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of the Oglala Lakota Nation
mentionedIn histories of the American Indian Wars
namedAfter Wounded Knee (body part)
partOf Missouri River Basin
surface form: Missouri River watershed

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation hydrological system
region Great Plains
surface form: Northern Great Plains
tributaryOf White River (Great Plains)
surface form: White River (South Dakota)

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Wounded Knee Massacre hasLocation Wounded Knee Creek
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation contains Wounded Knee Creek
this entity surface form: Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee Creek hasAssociatedSettlement Wounded Knee Creek self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Spotted Elk placeOfDeath Wounded Knee Creek
this entity surface form: Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota
Big Foot placeOfDeath Wounded Knee Creek
Big Foot associatedWith Wounded Knee Creek
Hotchkiss guns usedAtLocation Wounded Knee Creek
subject surface form: Hotchkiss gun
this entity surface form: Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota
Wounded Knee Monument locatedAt Wounded Knee Creek
this entity surface form: Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Wounded Knee Occupation (1973) location Wounded Knee Creek
this entity surface form: Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Wounded Knee Occupation (1973) namedAfter Wounded Knee Creek
this entity surface form: Wounded Knee