Eyewitness at Wounded Knee

"Eyewitness at Wounded Knee" brings together and assesses 143 photographs that were made before and immediately after the massacre which took place on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1890, when the 7th Cavalry of the US Army opened fire on a camp of Sioux Indians. Present at the scene were two itinerant photographers, George Trager and Clarence Grant Moreledge, whose work has never before been published. Accompanying commentaries focus on both the Indian and military sides of the story. Richard Jensen dwells on the political and economic quagmire in which the Sioux found themselves after 1877. Other commentaries discuss the role of the American Army at Wounded Knee and examine the photographers and reporters who, with relic hunters, were looking to profit from the misfortune of others.