What little does exist about Wounded Knee is normally the sanitized “Official Government Explanation” Who do
governments target? “Scapegoats” and “enemies” within their own borders. But only after they have been disarmed to the point where they are no longer a threat. Wounded Knee is the prime example of why the Second Amendment exists, and why we shouldn’t be in such a hurry to surrender our Right to Bear Arms. Without the Second Amendment we have no right to defend ourselves and our families.
In 1890 the Sioux were not US citizens, so 2A just did not apply to them.
They were citizens of a nation at war with the USA.
You can make a decent case that WK was a war crime, but you can’t make a case that it was a violation of the constitutional rights of the Sioux. They didn’t have any.
BTW, I do find it interesting that the America-haters constantly talk about the few cases, mostly Wounded Knee and Sand Creek, where US troops committed actrocities against Indians. But these were greatly the exception.
Nobody ever talks about the fact that most tribes as their normal routine of business did much worse every chance they got.
If I remember my history, it started with a vision by the Piute Wavoka, in Nevada that swept many tribes at that time. By doing the Ghost Dance that whites would disappear and the buffalo would return. The Indians began to make Ghost Shirts that a bullet could not go through (they thought).
Settlers in the area became alarmed and called for army intervention.
Frederick Remington did a series of paintings showing the Medicine man giving the signal to start the attack. They then found the Ghost Shirts didn’t work as promised.
The military officer, who was his guide was murdered with an arrow from the “peaceable” indians.