Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Summary and Analysis Chapter 18: Dance of the Ghosts
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Kicking Bear: A Minneconjou who had a vision of Christ in Nevada and began the Ghost Dance religion.
Buffalo Bill Cody: The stager of Wild West Show in which Sitting Bull performed.
Summary
After the Sioux are forced off their Black Hills and Powder River country territories in 1876 and 1877, they are put on the Great Sioux Reservation between the 103rd meridian and the Missouri River, in Dakota Territory. Sitting Bull, in exile in Canada with 3000 Sioux, meets with Army General Terry in October 1877, but nothing results from the talks. On July...
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