Wounded Knee and the Ghost Dance Tragedy

by Jack Utter

Ghosts, ghost, goblin, spook, scarry, vampire, walking dead, haunted, graveyard, apparition, haunt, poltergeist, zombie, fantasm, rise from the dead, wolfman, Dracula, demon, devil, evil spirit, gremlin, spook, spooky, hellhound, satanic, ungodly, back from the dead, undead, ghoulie

29 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1991

Reviews

[KV LeSuer]

Brief and succinct historical review of the birth of the Ghost Dance into the Lakota and Cheyenne tribes and its correlation with the devastating Wounded Knee slaughters. It includes the white peoples (in the guise of the U.S. soldiers) use of arrests, violence, food rationing, transports away from their homes to concentrate in camps. And then the ensuing slaughter that followed.
A great and humiliating historical record of humanity at both its best and worst. The Ghost Dance “world renewal, brotherhood, good times for all...and had included all people.
Contrasted with the senseless and non stop bullets and blatant killing concentrating and humiliating at Wounded Knee and the next century.
Read when you are also reading BLM books.

[Mark Luongo]

An American tragedy.

[Jennifer]

This small but powerful book provides the American Indian perspective of not only the history of the Ghost Dance, but also the tragedy of Wounded Knee. It also references other historical events such as the killing of Sitting Bull and connections to Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.