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Sandy Hook deadliest school shooting?; Not by a mile
Topic Started: Mar 1 2013, 03:34 AM (723 Views)
Pat
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In 1890 our federal government shot and killed 290 Native Americans at a school--women and children not spared.

Oh, and they gave up their guns too.

Oh how we forget history.
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tomdrobin
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Is this the one you are talking about? Technically not at school, but it was a massacre of women and children.

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1890, December 29: Wounded Knee Creek: The Miniconjou leader Big Foot was on his way to a meeting with the remaining Sioux chiefs when he was stopped by US Army officers and forced to relocate with his people to a small camp near the Pine Ridge Agency so that they could keep an eye on him. On the evening of December 28, the small band of Big Foot's Sioux erected their tipis on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek. The following day, US Army officials arrived to collect any remaining weapons from the band. One young and deaf Sioux warrior refused to relinquish his arms. A struggle followed, and a weapon was discharged into the air. One US officer gave the command to open fire and the Sioux responded by taking up the confiscated weapons. The US forces opened fire with carbine firearms and several rapid fire light artillery (Hotchkiss) guns mounted on the overlooking hill. When the fighting had concluded, 25 US soldiers lay dead, many killed by friendly fire. 153 Sioux were killed, mostly women and children.

Big Foot's Band, photographed on November 11, 1890

Big Foot dead in the snow
Following the massacre, Chief Kicking Bear officially surrendered his weapon to General Nelson A. Miles. When the American public heard the news of the massacre, there was general outrage. For months the US government had been portraying the Plains Indian as having been pacified. Now there were 153 dead Indians, mostly women and children. Buckling to public pressure, the US government reversed policy by reinstating the previous treaty’s terms, including full rations and more monetary compensation for lands taken away
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http://www.authentichistory.com/diversity/native/hb3-plainstimeline/index.html

We enslaved the blacks, but shot indians like dogs. One wonders how the country would have developed had we respected Native American land rights?
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