Wounded Knee, SD

ZIP code 57794 covers a sparsely populated area centered on Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota. Its best-known landmark is the Wounded Knee Massacre site, where U.S. troops killed hundreds of Lakota people in 1890. The nearby cemetery and memorial commemorate the victims. The surrounding area is characterized by open prairie and mixed-grass plains.