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n that day, in an atmosphere of mutual distrust it took only the firing of one gun to begin the brutal killing of most of the 350 Indian men, women and children. Twenty-five of the 492 soldiers and scouts were also killed. It has been called both a battle and a massacre, but what Wounded Knee has come to symbolize is a clash of cultures and a failed government-Indian policy; its effects still felt even today.
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