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Aug 26, 2007 - Wounded Knee

South of the Badlands, and partially in it, lies Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the second largest reservation in the country . Pine Ridge is second in size only to Navaho Nation in Arizona, and it is one of the reservations of the Lakota Nation, more commonly known as the Sioux. Most people over the age of 40 have heard of Pine Ridge but few could probably tell you why, and fewer still could find it on the map. Pine Ridge is known for two events that happened there, both of them at a place called Wounded Knee . The first happened in 1890,...

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