men. The real cause was racism from the whitemen toward Indians,

but the trouble really started to escalate when Wovoka had his

vision. Wovoka, his real name was Jack Wilson, was a rancher in

Nevada. In 1888 he came down with a fever and started to suffer

delirium, which was when he said he had his vision. In his vision, he

saw the Buffalo herds returning, ancestors long dead coming back,

and the white men dying off. The only way this would happen is if the

Indians took Wovoka to be their "messiah'' and the ghost dance was

spread throughout the Indian nations. This made the white people

afraid of the Indian people because if all the Indian nations came

together, they new they would be difficult to stop. They considered the

ghost dance evil because they didn't understand it and it started the

Indians rallying together. The massacre of Wounded Knee was a

major turning point in the overall battle with the Indians, It took their

hope away through the ghost dance but also made them more

determined to kill off the white men. It also showed some of the white

men how cruel the government was to the Indians.

and interrupted the work. After the storm had gone they came back

give up their weapons by a Ghost dancing medicine man names

young children. They claimed they were riding into themselves up at

calvarymen. Also staring down on the Indians were several small

South Dakotas Pine Ridge Agency. The calvarymen said they would

chaos created by this close range cannonade lasted only a few

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