Prophets of White Destruction
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- Prophets of White Destruction
- Chato and Geronmio led a campaign from Mexico
- 1881, medicine man- Nakaidoklini said his medicine could raise dead warriors and clear the settlers from Arizona
- Led to a revolt by reservation Apaches and a munity by Apache army scouts- 30th August 1881
- Followed a cruel cross border campaign led by Chato and the non-chief Goyathlay/Geronimo
- Only defeated by cooperation between the US and Mexican governments in 1883 and 1884
- Main officers involved were Generals Crook and Miles
- Several more outbreaks of Native American violence occurred,some fulled by alcohol
- Geronimo surrendered for the final time on 4th Sept. 1886
- Ghost Dancers and Wounded Knee-29th Dec. 1890
- The seer Wovoka taught that a special Ghost Dance could raise dead and bring a new world free from settlers
- He opposed to violence, but his teachings were taken as a call for war
- Some Sioux followers of the movement believed that special shirts would protect them from the bullets of Americans
- Sitting Bull had retreated into Canada after the 1876 campaign
- He joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1885, but soon returned to the reservation
- Was killed in a bungled attempt to arrest him on 15th Dec. 1890
- Government wrongly thought he was a leader of the Ghost Dance movement
- At roughly the same time Big Foot of the Sioux was camped at Wounded Knee to avoid the trouble
- Troops caught up with him and tried to disarm to Sioux
- One warrior fired a shot. Troops responded with a volley, killing 52
- Survivors went on to fight by hand
- The battle escalated when more warriors from the Agency camp nearby heard the gunfire and swarmed out, shooting at the soldiers, the disappearing into the prairie
- The seer Wovoka taught that a special Ghost Dance could raise dead and bring a new world free from settlers
- The Battle of the Wounded Knee cost the lives of some 150 Sioux
- 60 women and children, 25 soldiers
- Marked the final suppression of Native Americans by armed force
- By mid Jan 1891, the dispersed warriors had all surrendered
- The sight of ghost-dance shirts pierced by bullets destroyed the tribes' faith in a magical restoration of the old way of life
- The reservation was reluctantly accepted as home
- Chato and Geronmio led a campaign from Mexico
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