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On December 29, 1890, in one of the final chapters of America’s long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Throughout 1890, the U.S. government worried about the increasing influence at Pine Ridge of the Ghost Dance spiritual movement, which taught that Native Americans had been defeated and confined to reservations because they had angered the gods by abandoning their traditional customs. Many Sioux believed that if they practiced the Ghost Dance and rejected the ways of the white man, the gods would create the world anew and destroy all non-believers, including non-Indians.
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Article Title
U.S. Army massacres Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee
AuthorHistory.com Editors
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HISTORY
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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-army-massacres-indians-at-wounded-knee
Access Date
December 29, 2022
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Last Updated
January 5, 2022
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