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Today in History: December 29, the Wounded Knee Massacre

Also on this day, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in New York of helping lure teenage girls to be sexually abused by the late Jeffrey Epstein

A black and white photo of a mass grave
The bodies of Lakota Sioux being unceremoniously piled into a mass grave hacked into the frozen Dakota soil after the massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, USA, December 1890. Soldiers and civilians look on. (Photo by MPI/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
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The Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota as more than 250 Lakota people were killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.

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