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s rallying together. The Massacre at Wounded Knee was a major turning point in the overall battle with the Indians, it took their hope of deliverance 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.

The Indians had been travelling to Wounded Knee to meet up with one of the Reservation agencies when the 7th Calvary met up with them. Big Foot, who was chief now that Sitting Bull had been killed, had taken ill. The 7th offered to escort the Indians to their destination and provide Big Foot with medical assistance. In the morning after the Indians arrived at Wounded Knee Colonel John Forsyth rounded the Indians up to take away their weapons. They searched the whole camp and found only two guns. One belonged to a man named Black Coyote, he said that he had bought the gun with his own money and pleaded with them to let him keep it. They took it and added it to the guns they had taken the day before. Yellow Bird saw how this situation was starting to get out of hand so he thought he would start doing the Ghost Dance to protect the Indians. This made the troops uneasy, and edgy because they thought he was being crazy and unruly. Then when they heard a shot from somewhere they all took up their guns and fired into the Indian cro

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