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Drexel Mission Fight
	Part of the Ghost Dance War, Sioux Wars
	; The 'Bloody Pocket'; location of the Drexel Mission Fight
Date	December 30, 1890
Location	Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Result	U.S. victory
Belligerents
United States	Lakota Sioux; Brulé Sioux
Commanders and leaders
	James W. Forsyth; Guy V. Henry
Strength
	7th U.S. Cavalry; 9th U.S. Cavalry

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The Drexel Mission Fight was an armed confrontation between Lakota warriors and the United States Army that took place on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota on December 30, 1890, the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. The fight occurred on White Clay Creek approximately 15 miles north of Pine Ridge where Lakota fleeing from the massacre at Wounded Knee set up camp.

Company K of the Seventh Cavalry under the command of Col. James W. Forsyth was sent to force their return to the areas they were assigned on their respective reservations, some of the so-called 'hostiles' were Brulé Lakota from the Rosebud Indian Reservation. The Seventh Cavalry was pinned down in a valley by the combined Lakota forces and had to be rescued by the Ninth Cavalry, an African American regiment nicknamed the Buffalo Soldiers.^[1]

Among the Lakota warriors was a young Brulé from Rosebud named Plenty Horses who had recently returned from five years at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. A week after this fight Plenty Horses would shoot and kill Army Lieutenant Edward W. Casey,^[2]commandant of the Cheyenne Scouts (designated Troop L, Eighth Cavalry). The testimony introduced at the trial of Plenty Horses and his subsequent acquittal also helped abrogate the legal culpability of the U.S. Army for the killings at the Wounded Knee Massacre.^[3]

Notes

^ Jeffrey Ostler: The Plains Sioux and U.S. colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee pgs. 357-358, Cambridge University Press (2004) ISBN 0-521-60590-3
^ Congressional edition By United States. Congress p.132[1]
^ Roger L. Di Silvestro: In the Shadow of Wounded Knee: The Untold Final Story of the Indian Wars p.198, Walker & Company (2007) ISBN 0-8027-1514-1

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[1] Jeffrey Ostler: The Plains Sioux and U.S. colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee pgs. 357-358, Cambridge University Press (2004) ISBN 0-521-60590-3

[2] Congressional edition By United States. Congress p.132[1]

[3] Roger L. Di Silvestro: In the Shadow of Wounded Knee: The Untold Final Story of the Indian Wars p.198, Walker & Company (2007) ISBN 0-8027-1514-1

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-Among the Lakota warriors was a young Brule from Rosebud named [[Plenty Horses]] who had recently returned from five years at the [[Carlisle Indian School]] in [[Pennsylvania]]. A week after this fight Plenty Horses would shoot and kill Army Lieutenant Edward W. Casey,<ref>Congressional edition By United States. Congress p.132[http://books.google.com/books?id=NEBHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA132&dq=plenty+horses&hl=en&ei=2nTnTYC6E8fg0QG71PTnCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=plenty%20horses&f=false]</ref>commandant of the [[Cheyenne Scouts]] (designated Troop L, Eighth Cavalry). The testimony introduced at the trial of Plenty Horses and his subsequent acquittal also helped abrogate the legal culpability of the U.S. Army for the killings at the Wounded Knee Massacre.<ref>Roger L. Di Silvestro: In the Shadow of Wounded Knee: The Untold Final Story of the Indian Wars p.198, Walker & Company (2007) ISBN 0-8027-1514-1</ref>
+Among the Lakota warriors was a young Brulé from Rosebud named [[Plenty Horses]] who had recently returned from five years at the [[Carlisle Indian School]] in [[Pennsylvania]]. A week after this fight Plenty Horses would shoot and kill Army Lieutenant Edward W. Casey,<ref>Congressional edition By United States. Congress p.132[http://books.google.com/books?id=NEBHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA132&dq=plenty+horses&hl=en&ei=2nTnTYC6E8fg0QG71PTnCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=plenty%20horses&f=false]</ref>commandant of the [[Cheyenne Scouts]] (designated Troop L, Eighth Cavalry). The testimony introduced at the trial of Plenty Horses and his subsequent acquittal also helped abrogate the legal culpability of the U.S. Army for the killings at the Wounded Knee Massacre.<ref>Roger L. Di Silvestro: In the Shadow of Wounded Knee: The Untold Final Story of the Indian Wars p.198, Walker & Company (2007) ISBN 0-8027-1514-1</ref>
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