text: Genealogy Blogging Beat - Thursday, 29 December 2016
  Genealogy Blogging Beat – Thursday, 29 December 2016
  by Thomas MacEntee - 29 December 2016 23 December 2016 0
  Dec 29, 1890. Anniversary of the massacre of more than 200 Native American men, women and children by the US Seventh Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek, SD. Government efforts to suppress a ceremonial religious practice, the Ghost Dance (which called for a messiah who would restore the bison to the plains, make the white men disappear and bring back the old Native American way of life), had resulted in the death of Sitting Bull, Dec 15, 1890, which further inflamed the disgruntled Native Americans and culminated in the slaughter at Wounded Knee, Dec 29.
  Today is Thursday, 29 December 2016, and here is what's available in terms of genealogy blogging and other related events in the Genealogy Blogging world:
  Today: Admission Day – Texas, Wounded Knee Massacre – Anniversary, and YMCA Organized – Anniversary.