Wounding More than just the Knee: The Development of the Ghost Dance in

Religion has consistently been a simple rest from the works of every day life. Also, it has a natural capacity to enable its devotees to comprehend matters during times of depression. For Native Americans, religion has for quite some time been an indispensable piece of their way of life. The Longhouse Religion, the Drummer-Dreamer Faith (which emphatically foreshadowed the advancement of the Ghost Dance development), and the Indian Shaker Church are for the most part religions that started profound inside Native American culture. The white man, since his appearance in America, has consistently had outrageous measures of strain with Native Americans, frequently establishing laws so as to do what might fulfill white society. As the United States government removed increasingly more of what Native Americans depend on, tremendous measures of them diverted to religion for relief from the agony and enduring impelled, to some extent, by the white man. The United States government, since its very establishment, has been antagonistic towards Native Americans, compelling them to conform to their necessities. An early case of Indian control with respect to the United States government was the Indian Removal Act of 1830. During Andrew Jackson’s administration, a large number of Native Americans were constrained off of their territory west of the Mississippi River. These Native Americans strolled on what might later be known as the Trail of Tears. It was named this in light of the intense anguish that incalculable quantities of them suffered while on it. As they were constrained further and further west, they were confined onto littler and less prolific grounds. The Sioux Treaty of 1868 (otherwise called the Treaty of Fort Laramie) built up the Great Sioux Reservation. This arrangement attracted limits with respect to where Native Americans could and couldn't settle, and endeavor... ...ess, 2009. Meddaugh, J. E. Native American Ghost Dance. Photo. 1885. Photograph Lot 90-1, number 391. National Anthropological Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Individuals from the Potomac Corral of the Westerners. Incredible Western Indian Fights. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1960. Mooney, James. The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890. Washington DC: US Bureau of American Ethnology, 1896. Sandefur, Gary D. Native American Reservations: The First Underclass Areas? Focus 12, no. 1 (1989): 37-41. Streissguth, Tom. Injured Knee 1890: The End of the Plains Indian Wars. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1998. Thurman, Melbum D. Wovoka. American National Biography Online. Last adjusted February 2000. Gotten to October 15, 2013. http://www.anb.org/articles/20/20-01149.html. Wovoka. The Messiah Letter. Speech transcript.