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Wounded Knee, SD -- U.S. Census Designated Place in South Dakota
Population (2000): 328
Housing Units (2000): 56
Land area (2000): 1.071980 sq. miles (2.776416 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.071980 sq. miles (2.776416 sq. km)
FIPS code: 72900
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 43.144002 N, 102.367712 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57794
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wounded Knee

Wounded Knee may refer to

  • Wounded Knee, South Dakota
  • Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890
    • or the Wounded Knee Battlefield, a U.S. National Historic Landmarked site of the massacre
  • Wounded Knee incident of 1973

Usage examples of "wounded knee".

With its crackling pop, Renzo let out a bellow and fell, roaring and cursing and clutching both hands at his wounded knee.

The impact of the roof on his wounded knee and broken leg caused pain so extreme that he felt cocooned in a miasma of pure horror.

Then: *Or don't you consciously recall the Sudetenland, Lithuania, Wounded Knee, or—.

Regardless of the pain from her wounded knee, she stood proud and full of hatred.

Thomas, meaning to strike again at the wounded knee, feinted high and low and high again, and then was nearly killed, was knocked off his feet, by the impact of the sword against his spear.

Just like the cavalry of old at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee and a hundred other nameless, forgotten battlefields.

Besides the mile markers, they are passing a lot of billboards touting various tourist attractions: Mount Rushmore, the Crazy Horse Monument, Wounded Knee, Petrified Gardens, and something called Wall Drug, which Mouse has never heard of, but which is apparently a very big deal around here.