The Ghost Dance Movement 1890

• 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 millitary forced the Lakota to give up their weapons and then started shoorting them all.

 

• 290 Lakota Men, Woman, and children died.

 

• 33 soldiers died, and 20 medals were given to the surviving ones.

 

• The Ghost Dance was over, and the Sioux lost hope in ever winning against the whites.

 

 The Ghost Dance ^^^

Result of the Wounded Knee massacre in 1890 ^^^