Wounded Knee Massacre
By Stephen Ching
Alex DeNolfo
Tomas Ventrone
Ghost Dance
• A religion that was a hybrid of native religions and the
religions emigrants brought
• Celebrated with dancing
• Started in the 1880s
• Dancers wore white shirts that were believed to repel bullets
• Predicted that the world wound end in the coming years
• Religion was focused to give the Native Americans hope
Events Leading Up to
The Wounded Knee Massacre
• The Indians were moved to the bad lands
• Sitting Bull decided the teach his tribe Ghost
Dance
• The religious spike startled the government as
a guide for a rebellion
• Government sent men to take control of the
Lakota Camps
• Sitting Bull was arrested, but tried to resist
and was killed
The Wounded Knee Massacre
• The U.S. cavalry 500 Cavalry Troops under the command of Colonel
James W. Forsyth arrested the Sioux Tribe led by Big Foot
• The U.S. tells them to set up camp at the Wounded Knee creek
• Big Foot’s tribe are told to give up their weapons
• As the guns were confiscated, a stray bullet was fired
• Alarm sent Hochtkiss guns firing at the Indians
• The Indians gathered their guns from the pile and began to fight
• The fighting Indian killed twenty-nine and wounded thirty-nine
more
• All Indians were mercilessly massacred
Effect of Ghost Dance
• Ghost Dance spread all over the Native
American world
Effects of The Wounded Knee
Massacre
• The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last
major contact between the U.S. and the
Indians
• The entire Sioux Tribe was killed
• Made it more acceptable to kill Indians
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