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The Wounded Knee Massacre
An affidavit from US Indian agents about supply delivery to families at the Pine Ridge Agency, December 31, 1889.

An affidavit from US Indian agents about supply delivery to families at the Pine Ridge Agency, December 31, 1889.

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Shannon County }

We the undersigned do solemnly swear that the issue made to Indians by H. D. Gallagher U.S. Indian at Pine Ridge Agency South Dakota during the second Quarter 1890 as farm “2” to abstract “d” was made up “Vouchers Numbered from 1 to 15” and issued to the heads of families that the supplies actually did reach and were properly distributed to the heads of families. Heads of Consolidation and Bands receipting for same. It being impracticable and impossible at this Agency for the heads of families to receipt for supplies as it would necessitate the Indians remaining permanently at the issue Building.

Geo. O. Griffin Issue Clerk

R. O. Pugh Transportation Master

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of December 1889.

H. D. Gallagher

U.S. Indian Agent

I certify on honor that the facts set forth in the foregoing Affidavit are true and correct.

H. D. Gallagher

U.S. Indian Agent

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“Affidavit of George O. Griffin, Issue Clerk, and R.O. Pugh, Transportation Master,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/f73e28d64a8baade2a75ea3031e57427.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

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An affidavit from US Indian agents about supply delivery to families at the Pine Ridge Agency, December 31, 1889.
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A memorandum from James McLaughlin, Indian Agent at Pine Ridge Agency, regarding the reasons for the Ghost Dance uprising, November 6, 1890.
Correspondence from officers at the Pine Ridge Agency cautioning against military response to ghost dancing, November 24, 1890.
A telegram from Pine Ridge Agency reporting on the response to Sitting Bull’s death, December 20, 1890.
A photograph of the Rose Bud and Lakota “war dance” at Pine Ridge, December 25, 1890.
An 1891 illustration by Frederic Remington depicting the “the opening of the fight at Wounded Knee.”
A photograph of the Seventh Cavalry at Pine Ridge returning from the fighting at Wounded Knee.
A photograph of a civilian burial party loading the frozen bodies of fallen Lakota on carts and moving them to mass graves.
A photograph of officers and civilians unloading the frozen bodies of Lakota men, women and children into a mass grave at Wounded Knee.
A US Army situation report about conditions at Wounded Knee in the aftermath of the massacre, 1891.
An excerpt from a report from an inspection of government schools on Pine Ridge Reservation, May 1891.
A patch created by the American Indian Movement to commemorate events at Wounded Knee in 1890 and 1973.
A news story about life on the Pine Ridge Reservation during the occupation of Wounded Knee, September 1973.
A speech by American Indian Movement activist Dennis Banks on the first anniversary of the Wounded Knee occupation, February 27, 1974.

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