From the soldiers' point of view (as told my Robert Utley years after the occurrence), white men began to feel threatened by this new "Ghost Dance"" the Native Americans had recently started practicing. ... To try to put a stop to the dances, they were sent to arrest Sitting Bull, a leader involved of the Ghost Dances. ... With the Indians surrounded, the soldiers collected the guns from Bigfoot's people, angering them. ... In the Native American's eyes, the Ghost Dance was a harmless ritual practiced to ensure safety, but the American soldiers felt threatened and took action to...

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Barely surviving, the people were desperate for any type of nourishment, and along came the Ghost Dance. ... The Ghost Dance was a desperate attempt to return to their days of glory. ... "To bring this event, the Indians were to dance the Ghost Dance. ... The white people were frightened by the Ghost Dance so they had to make a law that forbids the Native American culture from performing the Ghost Dance. ... When the soldiers tried to disarm the band, a rifle went off, starting a so called battle. ...

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Barely surviving, the people were desperate for any type of nourishment, and along came the Ghost Dance. ... The Ghost Dance was a desperate attempt to return to their days of glory. ... "To bring this event, the Indians were to dance the Ghost Dance. ... The white people were frightened by the Ghost Dance so they had to make a law that forbids the Native American culture from performing the Ghost Dance. ... When the soldiers tried to disarm the band, a rifle went off, starting a so called battle. ...

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The conveyances promised turn out to be a forced march. it was said that ...seven thousand soldiers swooped over the nation causing the Cherokees to suffer greatly and also the troops were ordered To use guns and swords if necessary to punish any Cherokee who tried to hide. ... It is told that, Hateful soldiers prodded and kicked the old and sick on their march to the camps. ... Soldiers pricked friends and family with bayonets to keep them from turning back to help (Brill, 45). ... With him he brought the Ghost Dance and all tribes listened to that Siren song. ... There, unarmed and innocent ...

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The Ghost Dance was created as a result to go backwards in time, to escape the life they do not want to live, with buffalos to hunt, and free lands to roam in. ... As they began to practice this new ritual ghost dance, many white settlers were afraid, and the military were soon investigating the Sioux Indians. ... Nabokov, author of The Native Americans, stated that "The Seventh Cavalry troops, having rounded up a band of Hunkpapa Sioux suspected of potential trouble (fully two-thirds of them were women and children), herded the Indians for the night into a tight group surrounded by five hu...

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The conveyances promised turn out to be a forced march. it was said that ...seven thousand soldiers swooped over the nation causing the Cherokees to suffer greatly and also the troops were ordered To use guns and swords if necessary to punish any Cherokee who tried to hide. ... It is told that, Hateful soldiers prodded and kicked the old and sick on their march to the camps. ... Soldiers pricked friends and family with bayonets to keep them from turning back to help (Brill, 45). ... With him he brought the Ghost Dance and all tribes listened to that Siren song. ... There, unarmed and innocent ...

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Feelings Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a full account on the annihilation of the American Indian from the 1860's to the 1890's. I like the book for its information but I did not enjoy reading it. I appreciated the story from the perspective of the American Indian. From reading Bury My Heart at ...

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