Wounded Knee Creek

WOUNDED KNEE CREEK Crazy Horse, War Chief of the Sioux Indians of the North American plains, was murdered by soldiers on September 5th,1877. He was 35 years old. Soldiers from Fort Robinson Pretending friendship Offered the Sioux a lasting treaty If Crazy Horse returned with them. Trusting the soldiers Crazy Horse rode unarmed into the fort, Gate closed trapping him His arms held as he was bayoneted. Grieving parents of Crazy Horse Took the body of their warrior son Secretly buried his majestic heart At place called Wounded Knee Creek. Note: American history records the Indian nations were finally defeated by soldiers at a place called Wounded Knee Creek on December 29,1890. But it was a massacre. The Indians had surrendered. They were unarmed prisoners when the soldiers opened fire.300 men, women and children killed --- 4 men, and 47 women and children survived.