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"The Ghost Dance of the Sioux Indians: This depiction of Native Americans practicing their Ghost Dance religion appeared in the January 3rd, 1891 issue of the Illustrated London News. The religion prophesied the peaceful end of the westward expansion of whites and a return of the land to the Native Americans. The Ghost Dance religion is significant because of its role in the Wounded Knee Massacre when the Sioux, wearing shirts called ghost shirts, believed they would be protected from the soldiersÂ’ bullets."
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The speech given here was delivered in 1890 to a council of Sioux Indians, with no whites present. Major James McLaughlin asked Short Bull, another Sioux, who had attended the council, to repeat what Kicking Bear had said. A phenomenon of Indian oratory was the amazing memory of the speaker and the ability of the listener to remember what was said. Short Bull lost no time in passing along the speech, and McLaughlin wrote it down.
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In December, 1875 the Commissioner of Indian Affairs directed all Sioux bands to enter reservations by the end of January 1876. Sitting Bull, now a medicine man and spiritual leader of his people, refused to leave his hunting grounds. Crazy Horse agreed and led his warriors north to join up with Sitting Bull.
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