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Sitting Bull&WoundedKneeCreek&GhostDance « Thread Started on Jan 15, 2004, 5:50pm »
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota Chief. He was a natural-born leader. His courage was great and he wanted to lead his people to victory, not defeat. He was a very young warrior, starting at the age of 14. Many people knew that he was brave so he became head cheif of the Lakota Nation in 1868. He was killed with a bullet to his head.
Wounded Knee Creek happened after Sitting Bull's death. There were 120 men and 230 women and children. The deathtoll of WNC was 350...It was a massacre at the Wounded Knee Creek. 25 soldiers died and 39 were wounded, by their own bullets
The Ghost dance was claimed to make you get taken into the air and get suspended there while new earth was being laid down. Their ancestors would also live on this new earth. Only Indians would be allowed to live there. It was a religion now that was to be taught at the Sioux reservations. This event also started the Massacre of Wounded Knee Creek after Sitting Bull's death.
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Re: Sitting Bull&WoundedKneeCreek&GhostDance « Reply #1 on Jan 15, 2004, 6:20pm »
Sitting Bull was a Native American chief in the 1800s. He won a battle against GEorge Arstrong Custer and his men in the battle of Little Bighorn. Sitting Bulll and his followers escaped to CAnanda and returned. HE contiued to convince Sioux people to stop selling their lands and advocate the ghost dance. He was killed by a Native American police.
Wouned Knee Creek was a creek flowing to the White River. Wounded Creek was the site where the last mjor fight was of the Indian Wars. A band of Sioux led by Big Foot wer captured by the 7th Cavery on Dec. 20, 1890 and brought to the creek. On Dec. 29 a mdicine man threw dust in teh air and then someone open fire and wounded an officer. The US troops fired and killed at least 200 men, women and children.
Ghost Dance was a central ritual in the ninteenth century by a Paiute named Wovoka. The religion promised the end of westward expansion and the return of the land taken by the whites. The ritual is a dance which gos on for five days at night. On the last night, people dance up to the monrning. Hypnotic trances and shaking was also added to the ritual, which was suppose to be repeated every six weeks. This ritual came from Wovoka and many wanted to learn the ritual. The ritual spreaded rapidly and soon most Native Americans follow the ritual.
Re: Sitting Bull&WoundedKneeCreek&GhostDance « Reply #2 on Jan 15, 2004, 6:49pm »
Sitting Bull was one of the Native Americans who was a member of the Sioux tribe and he was known for his fearlessness in battle. He later became a leader of the strong Heart warrior society. US army was invading his territory so the Sioux fought the army's enroachment. Around 1867 he became the first principal chief of the entire Sioux nation. Sitting Bull refused to attend the peace conference of sign the treaty. But the government gave them a deadline to do it and whoever doesn't comply was considered hostile. Sitting Bull ignore it so General George Crook attacked the natives. They were fighting and running away until a lot of the natives surrendered and siting Bull was put in prison for two years. But he was arrested again because of teh religion called Ghost Dance. When his warors tried to rescue him, he was killed. Wounded Knee was the last major battle of the Indian wars. It was a war after the death of Sitting Bull. Wounded Knee Creek was a convenient place for the Seventh Cavalry to disarm Big Foot's during the Lakota Ghost Dance. The Ghost Dance was a religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead. This Native American Ghost Dance was a strong movement of the North American Indians that ended that ended at Wounded Knee. It was a dance that the Indians believed that would reunite them with friends and relatives in the ghost world. This spread from tribe to tribe and soon most of the Indians knew the Ghost Dance. There would Indians that will be dancing and singing songs that would cause the world to open up and swallow all the other peole while the Indians and their friends are the only ones left on the land.
Re: Sitting Bull&WoundedKneeCreek&GhostDance « Reply #3 on Jan 15, 2004, 7:04pm »
WHO IS SITTING BULL? Sitting Bull was a Lakota Medicine Man and a Chief. He was considered the last Sioux to surrender to the U.S. Government. In the 1850's, Sitting Bull began to feel the pressure of the white expansion into the Western United States. He did not participate in the resistance until 1863 when the settlers threatened the Hunkpapa hunting grounds. He killed his first buffalo at ten and "counting coup" (touching the enemy without their knowing) at fourteen. Since he had good leadership during these times he was named principle chief of the Teton Sioux Nation in 1867. Sitting Bull was held a prisoner for 2 years before he was moved to the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota. Jealousy and fighting among Sitting Bull led to his death. It was reported that he was murdered by the tribal police who had been sent to arrest him. Indians were forced to build a camp at Wounded Knee Creek. The next morning, December 29, 1890 the soldiers entered the camp demanding all of the Indian's weapons. One of the soldiers tried to disarm a deaf Indian named Black Coyote. He had a strong resistance and a gun was shot. THen guns echoed in the river bed. When the Indians ran to take cover, the soldiers opened fire, cutting down men, women, and children alike, the sick Big Foot among them. The fighting lasted about an hour and 150 Indians were killed and 50 wounded. 25 soldiers killed and 39 wounded.
Re: Sitting Bull&WoundedKneeCreek&GhostDance « Reply #4 on Jan 15, 2004, 7:08pm »
WHAT IS A GHOST DANCE? In 1888, Paiute holy man from Wovoka, Nevada began spreading the gospel that became to known as the Ghost Dance REligion. He said the earth would soon perish and they would come alive again in a pure, aboriginal state, to be inherited by the Indians, including the dead, for an eternal existence free from suffering. In order for the Indians to have that was that the Indians had to live harmoniously and honestly, cleanse themselves often, and shun the way of the whites, especially alcohol, the destroyer. Special Ghost Dance shirts they claimed, would protect them against the White man's bullets.
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Sitting Bull was one of the Native Americans who was a member of the Sioux tribe and he was known for his fearlessness in battle. He later became a leader of the strong Heart warrior society. US army was invading his territory so the Sioux fought the army's enroachment. Around 1867 he became the first principal chief of the entire Sioux nation. Sitting Bull refused to attend the peace conference of sign the treaty. But the government gave them a deadline to do it and whoever doesn't comply was considered hostile. Sitting Bull ignore it so General George Crook attacked the natives. They were fighting and running away until a lot of the natives surrendered and siting Bull was put in prison for two years. But he was arrested again because of teh religion called Ghost Dance. When his warors tried to rescue him, he was killed.
The Ghost Dance was a religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead. This Native American Ghost Dance was a strong movement of the North American Indians that ended that ended at Wounded Knee. It was a dance that the Indians believed that would reunite them with friends and relatives in the ghost world. This spread from tribe to tribe and soon most of the Indians knew the Ghost Dance. There would Indians that will be dancing and singing songs that would cause the world to open up and swallow all the other peole while the Indians and their friends are the only ones left on the land. 
Indians were forced to build a camp at Wounded Knee Creek. The next morning, December 29, 1890 the soldiers entered the camp demanding all of the Indian's weapons. One of the soldiers tried to disarm a deaf Indian named Black Coyote. He had a strong resistance and a gun was shot. THen guns echoed in the river bed. When the Indians ran to take cover, the soldiers opened fire, cutting down men, women, and children alike, the sick Big Foot among them. The fighting lasted about an hour and 150 Indians were killed and 50 wounded. 25 soldiers killed and 39 wounded.
