December 29, 1890 was one of the darkest days of South Dakota and American history. In a clash with U.S. Army soldiers, some 200 innocent Lakota men, women and children were massacred at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation. 124 years later, the horrific tragedy still haunts. In the first comprehensive account of Wounded Knee in more than fifty years, American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890, historian Jerome Greene provides a detailed account of the misunderstandings, mistrust and fear that led to the bloodbath. Greene is a retired research historian for the National Park Service who has written numerous books and articles about Indian-white relations in the mid-to-late 1800s. He joined Dakota Midday from his home in Colorado.