On December 29, US troops surrounded a Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee Creek, and massacred Chief Big Foot and 300 prisoners of war, using a new rapid-fire weapon that fired exploding shells, called a Hotchkiss gun.
les tropes dels EUA van envoltar un campament sioux a Wounded Knee Creek i van massacrar al cap Peu Gran, i a 300 presoners de guerra, utilitzant una nova arma de foc que disparava projectils explosius anomenada canó Hotchkiss.