Winter 1890, the Sioux no longer dominate the great American plains. From now on, these Indians live on food aid, modest rations distributed by the government. An administration which is also under tension, because the rumor of an uprising of Indian tribes, which would be won by the belief of the advent of a messiah. The followers of the "Dance of the spirits" are said to be multiplying from one tribe to another. It is this fear of the authorities, this fear of an insurrection, which will engender a deadly escalation: the chief Sitting Bull is killed during his arrest, a few days before the massacre of Wounded Knee on December 29, in the Dakota of south, when the military surround Big Foot and his people. In "What Happened to Wounded Knee"Laurent Olivier delivers his unprecedented investigation into this carnage for which the descendants of the victims are still trying to obtain justice, more than a century after the facts.
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