4. Wounded Knee Massacre
The Wounded Knee Massacre isn’t something widely taught in history classes and yet it represents one of the most unjust acts done to Native Americans. The massacre occurred on December 29th, 1890 when US troops rounded up Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota men and made a camp for them near Wounded Knee Creek. On the morning of the 29th, the US troops went to disarm the Native men when a deaf tribesman Black Coyote refused to give up his rifle (for good reason) and gunfire erupted. By the end of the chaos over 300 Lakota men, women, and children were either killed or seriously injured, and then buried in a mass grave. Over 20 US soldiers were given honourable metals for their horrendous acts.