To this day, the major daily newspaper for western South Dakota, the Rapid City Journal (or "The Urinal" as we like to call it) still refers to the 1890 massacre as a "battle" between the troops and civilians. Largely because of the propaganda attempts by a handful of second-rate historians who keep trying to perpetuate the myth that the civilians had it coming.

South Dakota is one of the most racist states in the Union, and it's governor, William Janklow, was involved in the rape of young American Indian woman who babysat for his children when he worked as a federal attorney on one of the reservations in the area. Leonard's story, and Janklow's complicity in it, is told in the excellent book "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" by Peter Mathiessen.

And IMO, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" ought to be required reading for every US history class in the nation.