The Story of Wounded Knee

RC Stein wrote the book The Story of Wounded Knee. It tells the story of the events that lead up to the final battle between the while people and the Lakota Sioux Indians. In the battle, about 200 men, women, and children were killed by the United States cavalrymen on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek, where the battle gets its name from. The US government had been trying to get the Lakota's land from them for years, and the Lakota Sioux had been resisting. The Lakota people and the white people tell different versions of the story of the battle and how it started, but no matter how it was started, the Battle of Wounded Knee is one of the most well known battles between the Sioux Indians and the white people.