Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of ...
When more than 700 white settlers flooded into the Roseau River valley in 1889, they found the Ojibwe who had lived in northwestern Minnesota for generations “peaceful and friendly,” according to a ...
Wanáǧvi Wachípi ki̜ -- The Indian agents and the Lakota Ghost Dance -- "To protect and suppress trouble": the army responds -- Missionary views on the Lakota Ghost Dance -- "In an atmosphere pregnant ...
Lakota culture in an era of change -- The Lakota and the Ghost Dance religion -- From accommodation to resistance -- Indian performers in Buffalo Bill's Wild West -- Suppressing the Ghost Dance and ...
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How the U.S. Massacred 300 Natives

In December 1890, as fear of a spiritual uprising gripped the U.S. frontier, soldiers of the 7th Cavalry surrounded a Lakota ...
The theft of a valuable Native American artifact triggers a cascading series of violent crimes in Americana, a revisionist Western set in present-day South Dakota. Writer-director Tony Tost brings his ...