In December of 1890, some 300 Lakota Indians, led by Chief Spotted Elk, took up encampment in the area we now know as Wounded Knee, South Dakota. While they were resting, a larger group of U.S. soldiers surrounded the Indians. A single shot was fired from the soldiers, sparking a string of unprecedented fire from the troops. When the rain of ammunition ceased, over 300 Lakota Indians laid dead from gunfire, cannonfire or manual butchering from the …showed first 75 words of 886 total…

…showed last 75 words of 886 total…convicted of any crime. It’s unreal that nothing has really changed since the 1800s. We should be progressing much faster than we are as a nation, but instead we just can’t shake these biases we have toward different races and ethnicities. The government feels like it has to be sneaky about it, but because of the aforementioned incidents, nothing is much left to the imagination with what our racial prejudices have led to.