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Wounded Knee Massacre

The once free-roaming life of the Sioux was destroyed. The final buffalo were gone, and the Sioux were confined to reservations and surviving off of very little resources. Barely surviving, the people were desperate for any type of nourishment, and along came the Ghost Dance. A dance thought to bring back the days when the buffalo surrounded them in huge numbers; the days when they were strong and striving, but in the end it would all stop in a very short time.

“Lakota leaders such as Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud were among the best known Native Americans of the nineteenth century” (Gale 287). “These chiefs lead their tribe into two of the most famous incidents in American History, the battle of the Little Bighorn, in 1876, and the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890” (Gale 287).

The Ghost Dance was a desperate attempt to return to their days of glory. A man called Wovoka, had brought this dance to the Native American people. “Emissaries from the Sioux in South Dakota traveled to Nevada to hear his word

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