In 1889, a medicine man called Wovoka had a vision that he was taken to the spirit world and saw the earth swallowing up the whites and bringing back dead ancestors.
God instructed him that if he and his people did the Ghost dance every night, his vision would become a realityWhites believed that the religion’s purpose was to kill all of their kind.
On December 28, 1890, the Lakota were escorted to Wounded Knee by the military, where they had a camp at Wounded Knee Creek.
The next morning on December 29, 1890, the military forced the Lakota Indians to give up their weapons.
Troops started firing at the Lakota.
290 Lakota Men, Women, and Children died.
33 white soldiers died due to friendly fire.
20 medals were given to the surviving soldiers.
The Ghost Dance ^^^
Result of the Wounded Knee massacre in 1890 ^^^
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