Knee site, memorial/burial ground several times; it never fails to be powerfully moving and saddening. The city of Wall, SD, even has a WK museum, which is really interesting, although many of the pictures are quite graphic and need to be seen on a strong stomach.
It was a long time before the word "battle" was finally replaced with "massacre", which is what it was. Three hundred unarmed old people, women and children shot in the back and sides as they were desperately fleeing American "soldiers" shooting at them is NOT a "battle". Yet too many South Dakotans continue to think the Lakota are "whiners" for continuing to "harp on old history." One Lakota asked someone who said that in his presence, "so, would you say that about Civil War reenactments that still go on?" Total silence, lol.
What is particularly infuriating is that the "soldiers" who murdered the hundreds of unarmed Lakota elderly, women and children were awarded Congressional Medals of Honor for "heroic service" (gag, choke, vomit) and, to this day, those medals have never been rescinded despite decades of campaigning to get Congress to do just that. At the latest vote several years ago, John Fucking McCain voted no and tried to explain it to his Indian constituents in AZ (he was on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee at the time) by claiming that the soldiers were "doing their duty as they understood it at the time" and showed "bravery in doing so", despite its wrongness. Blech. Some day those damned medals will be rescinded. They must be, if we are to be an honorable nation.