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- From 1850-1880, Indian Hunting became popular due to white people wanting to eliminate native Americans from the land. The Hunters would bring back the head or the skull of the people they killed as proof
- Indian Hunting!
- Realizing that they were slowly losing their culture, the Natives turned to a spiritual figure for help named Wovoka. The new revival emphasized the coming of a messiah, but its most conspicuous feature was a mass, emotional “Ghost Dance,” which inspired ecstatic visions. Among these visions were images of a retreat of white people from the plains and a restoration of the great buffalo herds. White agents on the Sioux reservation watched the dances in bewilderment and fear; some believed they might be the preliminary to hostilities.
- "Ghost Dance"
- On December 29, 1890, the Seventh Cavalry (which had once been Custer’s regiment) tried to round up a group of about 350 cold and starving Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Fighting broke out in which about 40 white soldiers and more than 300 of the Indians, including women and children, died. What precipitated the conflict is a matter of dispute. But the battle soon turned into a one-sided massacre, as the white soldiers turned their revolving cannons on the Indians and mowed them down in the snow.
- Wounded Knee
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