Zintkála Nuni (Lakota for "Lost Bird", 1890 – February 14, 1920), alternatively Zintka Lanuni, was a Lakota Sioux woman who was a 4-month-old infant when she was found alive among the victims at the Wounded Knee Massacre. == Discovery and early life == On the fourth day after the Wounded Knee massacre, when a US Army detail went out to bury the dead, Zintkála was found on the battlefield under a covering of snow, still tied and protected on her frozen mother's back.
Zintkála Nuni (Lakota for "Lost Bird", 1890 – February 14, 1920), alternatively Zintka Lanuni, was a Lakota Sioux woman who was a 4-month-old infant when she was found alive among the victims at the Wounded Knee Massacre. == Discovery and early life == On the fourth day after the Wounded Knee massacre, when a US Army detail went out to bury the dead, Zintkála was found on the battlefield under a covering of snow, still tied and protected on her frozen mother's back.
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