Whitside approached Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them 5 miles (8.0 km) westward to Wounded Knee Creek, where they made camp. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. The previous day, a detachment of the U.S.
state of South Dakota, following a botched attempt to disarm the Lakota camp. It occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek ( Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.
