On the northern Great Plains of the United States, after major Native American and American military clashes in the later 19th century like the Fetterman Massacre, the Washita Massacre, Battle of the Little Bighorn, and numerous other events of treaties and treachery, the soldiers of the 7th Cavalry exerted another pivotal mass killing of Indians at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Lakota chief Spotted Elk, known as Big Foot, died on the frozen ground in the snow along with hundreds of native

[I have deviated a bit from the direct path of the Louis & Clark Expedition in this recent series of videos on the evolution of the...

In the 19th century, a sporadic warfare among Native American populations, including the Northern Plains tribes, increasingly shifted to...