The appearance of the ghost dance, a religion preached by a Paiute shaman named Wovoka brought demands from whites far and away for the whole thing to be stopped by the army. Wovoka preached that he was the Messiah and prophesied that the world of the dead would soon join the world of the living to create a world in which the Indian could live in the old ways with plentiful game around them.(Davis,74) …showed first 75 words of 1103 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1103 total…their actions on that day including one given to a member of the Hotchkiss gun battery.(Davis, 79) Wounded Knee is considered the last of the battles between whites and Indians, it marked the end of the Indian wars. Charges were brought against Col. Forsyth but a court of inquiry exonerated him. In the words of Robert Utley wounded knee “Symbolized the injustices and degredations inflicted on them by the U.S. Government”.(www-personal.umtcn. edu)