... When Big Foots tribe finally surrendered they were escorted west to Wounded Knee Creek. The soldiers surrounded the Indians and set up four Hotchkiss guns, while the tribe set up camp. The Indians began to do the Ghost dance all through the night and into the next, Colonel Forsyth put out orders that ... of the Indians and other troops went into the teepees to do a search. The tension on the outside caused everyone to be uneasy and when the soldiers began to search the Indians the situation exploded. A young Indian pulled out his gun a started to fire wildly. Instantly, the Hotchkiss gu...

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... the whites when the time came. In order for this to happen the Indians had to perform a dance called the Dance of Souls departed, or Ghost Dance"(Utter 3). Immediately, Wovoka began preaching among the Paiutes. If the Dance was performed all the Indians who had died would come back to ... their renewed earth forever(Utter 3). This was especially important to the Indians, because their ancestors were very important to them. The Sioux joined the ghost dance society because this was their last hope to returning to their native heritage. They joined with passion, because they believed that t...

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... The Seventh Cavalry attacked the Sioux for performing the Ghost Dance. The aftermath of the attack was forty soldiers and two hundred Indians were killed. Where The Ghost Dance Religion began in Nevada and quickly caught on across the Plains. The Ghost Dance Religion caught on in Sioux Indian Reservations. ... The Seventh Cavalry attacked the Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. When The Ghost Dance Religion ... came in the way of the Seventh Cavalry. Historical Significance The government did not send in the Seventh Cavalry to just stop the Ghost Dance itself but, to stop the I...

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... later, a distinguished member of the Silent Eaters, a group concerned with tribal welfare. In June of 1863, Sitting Bull saw his encounter with American soldiers, when the army mounted a broad campaign in retaliation for the Santee Rebellion in Minnesota. However, Sitting Bull did not become active in the struggles with ... around Sitting Bull and he became the first principle chief of the entire Sioux nation. Sitting Bull's courage was legendary. Once during a battle with soldiers protecting railroad workers on the Yellowstone River in 1872, he led four other warriors out between the ...

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... Elk claims his peoples "beautiful dream " had died there" (Black Elk p. 207). From the soldiers' point of view (as told my Robert Utley years after the occurrence), white men began to feel threatened by this new "Ghost Dance"" the Native Americans had recently started practicing. To the soldiers, "they represented the barbarism the government had tried to stamp out for a decade, "when talking ... of the dances" (Robert Utley p. 244). While an Indian Stronghold formed, the soldiers attempted to end the affair without the use of violence. To try to put a stop to the dances, they were sent...

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... the antiwhite Ghost Dance cult and was therefore arrested by troops. In the fracas that followed, he was shot twice in the head. Sitting Bull' followers were apprehended and brought to the U.S Army Camp at Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. Moving among the tipis, soldiers lifted women's ... asking them how old they were. The soldiers were hoping to discover which of the men had been at the Battle of Little Bighorn where Custer was killed. On the bitterly cold morning of December 29, 1890, Alice Ghost Horse, a thirteen- year old Lakota girl rode her horse through the ... ...

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... Creek a cruel massacre amongst the Indian race or was this yet another triumph for our brave soldiers? On the bone-chilling morning of December 29, devotees of the newly created Ghost Dance religion made a lengthy trek to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota to seek protection ... ghost shirts and Yellow Bird's speech was not enough to protect the hundreds of Indian men, women and children that were injured or killed that night. There, on the snowy banks of Wounded Knee Creek, one hundred forty-six Indians were massacred in a highly charged, violent encounter with U.S. soldi...

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... 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 ... 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 Nativ...

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... 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 ... 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 Nativ...

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... emigrants traveling through. Also, at the same time as this great emigration to the West, the civil war had just ended, leaving a lot of civil war officers with a lot of soldiers, and no war to fight. With the white man's irrational lust for gold on the eve of exploding in the Lakota territory, the U.S. government realized that they needed to send ... as well in the form of boarding schools and miss ionization. This is the state they were left in at the time when the Ghost Dance, along with other religious movements was in their earliest stages. The Ghost Dance came from a shaman from P...

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... be referred to congress. No further meeting took place. This further caused the Indians to distrust the white man. The Souix were once a proud tribe. With the coming of the soldiers they found their freedom gone and the buffalo gone. They were confined to reservations where they were dependent on the local Indian Agents for their food. In the late 1880 ... would be strong warriors once again. To bring this change about in a shorter amount of time the Indians were to dance the Ghost Dance. The dancers wore colorful shirts with pictures of eagles and buffaloes. They believed the Ghost Shi...

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... government commission of duplicity, ""The Great Father sends us presents and wants us to sell him the road, but the White Chief [Carrington] goes with soldiers to steal the road before the Indians say Yes or No"" (Olson 36). Red Cloud then gathered his followers and left the council. For the next ... they soon turned to the military to put an end to the practice. Red Cloud, as in the Custer incident, was not involved in the Ghost Dance problem, but tried to maintain the peace and act as a calming influence on the younger Indians. However, the military responded by massing troops on ... ...

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... him that the dead would join the living in peace and harmony away from the "whites," and continue to live in their old ways. The Ghost Dance was created as a result to go backwards in time, to escape the life they do not want to live, with buffalos to hunt, ... in. Many different Indians, including the Sioux Indians, believed Wovoka, and began to preach his preaches (1). As they began to practice this new ritual ghost dance, many white settlers were afraid, and the military were soon investigating the Sioux Indians. As a result, Sitting Bull was arrested in December 1890, ... suspected ...

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... wagon trains, stage coaches, and isolated ranches. When the army became more involved in the fighting, the Indians started to focus on the white soldiers. In 1862, when the north and south were locked in Civil War, Minnesota felt the fury of an even more fundamental internal conflict. The ... brilliant young warrior named Crazy Horse who decided to take advantage of the captain's cocky attitude. On the morning of December 21, 1866, a party of soldiers were sent out to get wood, they signaled back they were under attack, fetterman demanded and got command of a relief force, they were orde...

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... behind him because he was so looked up to among his people. One account of his courage talks about a battle in 1872. "During a battle with soldiers protecting railroad workers on the Yellowstone River, Sitting Bull led four other warriors out between the lines, sat calmly sharing a pipe with them as bullets buzzed ... lot of the Indians were from reservations that left to try and gain their land back. General Alfred Howe Terry was in charge of the group of soldiers. George Armstrong Custer was a civil war hero that was in charge of the Seventh Calvary. Custer had received orders to meet ...

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... for the Lakota people and they certainly felt rage towards the Army, but they also felt deceived. Another loss came when the U.S. felt threatened by the Western Sioux performing the Ghost Dance, and so they killed one of the Indian leaders, Sitting Bull. And once again, the Indians were let down by the Americans, whom they felt were liars, thieves, and ... murderers. The Lakotas lived in constant lookout for soldiers trying to kick them off of their land. The Americans bombarded Indian camps, "the soldiers began shooting into tepees, the people ran out into the snow, and most of them we...

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... slipped out the other side of the ridge and sprinted towards the base. But for some reason Gall never could peacefully exist with the whites. Once when he stole ponies, soldiers came to his village and proceeded to stomp, club, and stab him until they thought that he could not recover. His village packed up and moved, also thinking that he ... , "Your own people, Lakota's, will kill you." Five years later Kicking Bear, a Minicongou Lakota, informed Sitting Bull of the spiritual movement, known as the Ghost Dance, sweeping from the southwest. The United States, fearing that the Ghost Danc...

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... , whether it be to start a new life, seek glory and adventure, strike it rich, or prevail over the challenging West. In reaction to Sitting Bulls actions of resistance , Americans- particularly soldiers and government- fought with more force and anger until at last his resistance was made futile. At first the government tried to offer the Lakotas lands in areas of no ... West that the whites had no use for. Indians were forced to become farmers and accept the white mans ways. Reservation life was very tough and many turned to the Ghost Dance for hope of a better tomorrow where they could...

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... Custard. When the winter came and the Cheyenne fled there land with about 300 people. Dull Knife and Little Wolf led a group west but later split up. Dull Knife finds soldiers who allow them shelter and to hunt. His people were forced back on reservations, but they refused and all but nine were killed. In 1863 The Utes sold rights to ... . In chapter 18 we find out that Sitting Bull and his 184 followers surrender to the U.S. Sitting Bull is released and joins Buffalo Bill in his shows. Because of the Ghost dance spread throughout America to the chiefs, the U.S. demanded all chiefs be ar...

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... . He was a friendly man who always had a good story or joke to share with others. Sitting Bull prayed a lot, he was a very religious man. In his first battle against american soldiers, he led his tribe to victory. He also defended his tribes land against the U.S. Army in the famous battle of Little Big Horn which was led by General Custer. Sitting ... died in 1890, he was 59 years old. He died at Standing Rock, where the Lakota Police sent 43 policemen to bring him in. They feared he would join the Ghost Dance, a ceremony that promised to rid the land of white people and restore the Indi...

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