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Wounded Knee Massacre & Ghost Dance

Tom Dougherty, Byron Gaspard , Colin Bradley, and Luis Palacios. Wounded Knee Massacre & Ghost Dance. Ghost Dance. The religion said that the earth would perish and come back to be inhabited by Indians

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Wounded Knee Massacre & Ghost Dance

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  1. Tom Dougherty, Byron Gaspard, Colin Bradley, and Luis Palacios Wounded Knee Massacre & Ghost Dance

  2. Ghost Dance • The religion said that the earth would perish and come back to be inhabited by Indians • Started by Wovoka, who had a dream that Indians were lifted into the sky and the Whites were swallowed up by Mother Earth • The religion quickly spread and many Native Americans came to Nevada

  3. Customs of Ghost Dance • Wovoka discouraged mourning • Wovoka was thought to be the Messiah for the Native Americans • Alcohol was prohibited • 5 day long dance • Short Bull said that all whites should be killed

  4. Arapaho Ghost Dance

  5. Wounded Knee Massacre • US officials banned the Ghost Dance • Native Americans were led to the Pine Ridge Reservation • The encampment was known as the “Stronghold” • Sitting Bull was arrested by Police in North Dakota

  6. Wounded Knee Massacre • Sitting Bull and seven warriors were killed by the Indian Police • In just an hour, many Native Americans were killed after an accidental gunshot • A medicine man said that the ghost shirts would protect them, so they should resist

  7. Bibliography • http://www.hanksville.org/daniel/lakota/Ghost_Dance.html • http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/woundedknee/WKmscr.html • http://www.lastoftheindependents.com/wounded.htm

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