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I read that Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. During 1890, the U.S. government worried about the increasing influence at Pine Ridge of the <em>Ghost Dance </em>spiritual movement, <em>which taught that Indians had been defeated and confined to reservations because they had angered the gods by abandoning their traditional customs.</em> Many Sioux thought that if they practiced the <em>Ghost Dance</em> and rejected the ways of the white man, the gods would create the world anew and destroy all non-believers (including the ones that were not Indians). On December 15, 1890, reservation police tried to arrest Sitting Bull, a famous Sioux chief, who they mistakenly believed was a <em>Ghost Dancer</em>, and killed him, increasing the tensions at Pine Ridge.
On December 29, the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry surrounded a band of <em>Ghost Dancers</em> under Big Foot, a Lakota Sioux chief, near Wounded Knee Creek and demanded their surrender. As that was happening, a fight broke out between an Indian and a U.S. soldier and a shot was fired, although it’s unclear from which side, it was a big massacre.
