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Wounded Knee |
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| The practice of a Native American religious ritual called the Ghost Dance on the Sioux reservation led to the intervention of federal troops and the arrest of Sioux leader Sitting Bull in December 1890. Gunfire erupted and Sitting Bull was shot along with a number of his supporters. The U.S. Cavalry later killed several hundred Sioux men, women, and children who had fled to a camp along Wounded Knee Creek. | ||||||
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| Native Americans of North America; Wounded Knee; Sioux; Native American Policy; Indian Wars; United States (History) | ||||||
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