Photo reproduction of a map depicting location of United States troops and Native American Lakota Sioux, at the start of the Wounded Knee massacre, South Dakota. Shows: "soldiers tents, Indian tepees, Big Foot's tent, the Bee correspondent, General Foresythe, [sic] (Forsyth) Major Whiteside, Captain Wallace, Father Crafts, two interpreters, cavalry horses tied together; Captain Varnum's men, Lieut Taylor's scouts, Capt Nolan with mounted guard, Capt Wallace's Troop K, Co. G. 'Gray Horse Troop', hill on which Hotchkiss battery was located, ambulance wagon, ravine, Wounded Knee Road, road to Pine Ridge Agency, open field, log cabin, post office, and where the Indians escaped to hills.
View over the battlefield at Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, shows frozen bodies of Native American Lakota Sioux on the snow covered ground with the civilian burial party with horses and a wagon in the distance.
Bird's eye view of the snow covered ravine where many Native American Sioux sought shelter during the fight at Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; shows frozen bodies where soldiers fired and killed from both sides of the ravine, a few men with horses, and a broken wagon.
A civilian burial party stands by their wagon filled with the frozen bodies of Native American Lakota Sioux, in a ravine south of the camp at Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Mounted U.S. Army officers look on from hill above.
View to the northeast of Lieutenant Sydney A. Cloman, First Infantry, on his horse on the Wounded Knee battleground among the frozen bodies of the slain Native American Lakota Sioux on the snow including Chief Big Foot on the left, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Cloman accompanied the burial party and drew the official map of the scene of the fighting.
View of the slain body of Chief Big Foot, Native American, Miniconjou Lakota Sioux, propped up in the snow on the Wounded Knee battleground, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. U. S. soldiers, civilian burial party members, and a stovepipe from an army tent show in background.
View of the twisted frozen slain body of Chief Big Foot, Native American, Miniconjou Lakota Sioux, propped up on the Wounded Knee battleground, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
Bird's eye view from center of Native American Lakota Sioux camp to the northeast, across the council circle, after the fight at Wound Knee creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; shows scattered frozen bodies in the snow, tepee poles; one with a soldier standing under them, a broken down wagon and U. S. soldiers with horse in distance.
View southwest from center of council circle after the fight at Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, shows men holding moccasins and other souvenirs among the frozen bodies of Native American Lakota Sioux on the snow covered ground.
View to the southeast from hill where Native American Lakota Sioux were buried after the Wounded Knee battle on December 29, South Dakota. Includes tepee poles marking location of Sioux camp, men loading frozen bodies into wagons, center, where the council circle was asked to surrender their arms; the army camp was located to the far left, and a photographer with his tripod camera shows in foreground.
"What's left of Big Foot's band at hostile Indian camp, Jan. 16, 1891"
A Native American man wearing a fur hat sits on a log in the right foreground next to a row of five Native American children also sitting on the log. The children have blankets wrapped around them. Four women, one older and three younger, stand behind the group in the midground. The woman has a young child on her back and a striped blanket wrapped around herself and the child. A group of teepees is in the background.
A civilian burial party and U.S. Army officers pose over a mass grave trench with bodies of Native American Lakota Sioux killed at Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
Interior of Holy Cross Episcopal Church at the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, shows standing army corp men and a Native American Sioux man with wounded Sioux from Wounded Knee on the hay covered floor of the church still decorated with Christmas garlands.
Group shot of the Seventh (7th) Cavalry? posed with rifles in their camp on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. The soldiers wear uniforms, some with fur skin caps and ammunition belts.
View of grave sites with crosses near the mass grave of the Native American Sioux victims of the Wounded Knee massacre, South Dakota. One cross reads: "Pugh Fire Thunder, B. 1891, D 17 1935."
View of the mass graves of the Native American Sioux victims of the Wounded Knee massacre, South Dakota, shows a long concrete border, decorated markers, a tall wooden cross, and a memorial topped with an urn.
