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.
29. decembrī ASV kareivji aplenca siu apmetni pie Ievainotā ceļa pietekas un noslepkavoja virsaiti Lielpēdi un 300 karagūstekņu ar jaunu sprāgstošu patronu ātršāvēju – Hočkisa lielgabalu.