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JIM CARSON
The Road to Wounded Knee oil
44 x 66 inches
$25,000–35,000
The Wounded Knee Massacre (also called the battle of Wounded Knee) occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Wounded Knee Creek is about forty-five miles south of the Dakota Badlands. The band of Miniconjou Lakota lead by the aged and ailing Spotted Elk (also known as Big Foot) was ordered to come to Wounded Knee Creek to surrender to the Pine Ridge Reservation, and their route passed through present-day Badlands National Park, past the Badlands Wall depicted in this painting. On the morning of December 29, the cavalry went into the Lakota camp to disarm them. A rifle was fired, perhaps by accident; the soldiers began shooting, the warriors fought back. When the shooting was over, more than 150 men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed.
—Jim Carson, November 2018