Wounded Knee Massacre 1890

300 natives slaughtered, mostly women and children. It was during this time that news spread among the reservations of a Paiute prophet named Wovoka, founder of the Ghost Dance religion. He had a vision that the Christian Messiah, Jesus Christ, had returned to earth in the form of a Native. According to Wovoka, the Messiah would raise all the Native believers above the earth. During this time the white man would disappear from Native lands, the buffalo herds and all the other animals would return in abundance, and the ghosts of their ancestors would return to earth. They would then return to earth to live in peace. All this would be brought about by performance of the "Ghost Dance." The U.S. government's interest in, and fear of, the Ghost Dance movement peaked December 29 of 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. There, nearly 300 Indians en route to a Ghost Dance gathering were massacred by US soldiers. That event was put to an end as well as Wovoka's vision. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre