Ghost Dance movement
1889–1890 · Event
Wovoka's millenarian vision — dance, and the dead return, the buffalo come back, the settlers vanish — sweeps the despairing reservations. Official panic over the movement led directly to Sitting Bull's death and Wounded Knee.
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