Ghost_Dance

Ghost Dance Who The Seventh Cavalry and the Sioux Indians of South Dakota. What The Seventh Cavalry attacked the Sioux for performing the Ghost Dance. The aftermath of the attack was forty soldiers and two hundred Indians were killed. Where The Ghost Dance Religion began in Nevada and quickly caught on across the Plains. The Ghost Dance Religion caught on in Sioux Indian Reservations. The Seventh Cavalry attacked the Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. When The Ghost Dance Religion was first introduced to the Sioux Indians in the summer of 1889 but did not really become widely known until 1890. The Sioux Indians were attacked at Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890 by the Seventh Cavalry. Why/How One of the main reasons why the Ghost Dance caught became so widely popular was the Dawes Act. The Dawes Act took from the Sioux Indians one of the few things they had left, their land. The Dawes act just made the Indian?s situation that much worse, it made the rationing of food for the Sioux a must for their survival. The Ghost Dance Religion was started by a Paiute Indian named Wovoca. He claimed to have had a vision where he was taken up ghost, dance, sioux, indians, government, seventh, cavalry, religion, wovoca, way, people, god, attacked, world, taken, one, new, land, heaven, full, dawes, caught, because, act, wounded, widely, untouched, told, stop, south, scared, made, knee, just, intervention