Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of ...

Wanáǧvi Wachípi ki̜ -- The Indian agents and the Lakota Ghost Dance -- "To protect and suppress trouble": the army responds -- Missionary views on the Lakota Ghost Dance -- "In an atmosphere pregnant ...

Lakota culture in an era of change -- The Lakota and the Ghost Dance religion -- From accommodation to resistance -- Indian performers in Buffalo Bill's Wild West -- Suppressing the Ghost Dance and ...

In 1890, the U.S. Army herded hundreds of Lakota Sioux Americans into a clearing near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, ordered them to hand over their weapons, and then opened fire, killing as many ...

Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-SD, introduced federal legislation Tuesday to preserve an area of land where hundreds of Lakota men, women and children were massacred by the U.S. Army at Wounded Knee in 1890.