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Wounded Knee, South Dakota

CDP in South Dakota, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Wounded Knee is a census-designated place (CDP) on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 364 at the 2020 census.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Wounded Knee, South Dakota” as cDP in South Dakota, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wounded, Knee and South.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wounded, Knee and South providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wounded Knee, South Dakota” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.