1. Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee “The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.” Sitting Bull

2. Great Plains U.S. Government’s desire Railroads Settlements
Divide and conquer
Sitting Bull’s Attempts to Refuse Treaty for Reservation

3. 1868-1876 Broken Treaty-Black Hills Stolen
Refusal to Sell Black Hills = Attacks on Indians
9 million acres stolen from Sioux Reservation

4. Five Long Years Wandered Resisted U.S. Troops Canada-no refuge
Turned themselves in 1881
Sitting Bull imprisoned
Returned to Reservation 1884

5. 1887 Government-took more land Miserable life on reservations
* diseases
* nothing would grow
* Couldn’t hunt
* Starvation from rations
* Couldn’t leave

6. Ghost Dance Sitting Bull’s Hope
Dance promised resurrection of old ways
Restoration of Indian life forever
Based on Indian Prophecies
Excitement rose among the Sioux
Desperate people looking for answers

7. Fear of Ghost Dance Whites suspicious of the dance
Christians spread disgust of dance
Newspapers ran reports-beware
Government banned the dance

8. Sitting Bull’s Death Sitting Bull gathered his people Pine Ridge
arrested then shot on site
People fled under guidance of Big Foot
Walked for days-snow
Calvary intercepted-120 men & 230 women
Indians surrendered

9. Bloody End Held captive-Whites searched for weapons
Sioux had none-Big Foot began Ghost Dance
Last Chance for Survival
Sang about strong Sioux Hearts
Scared the Troops
Fires rang out
Men, women, children, babies-murdered
290 Sioux died

10. “If we must die, we die defending our rights.” Sitting Bull