Danielf Royer News Today

White settlers feared the Lakotas Ghost Dance presaged an armed uprising. But US troops carried out the bloodbath.

The tragic events of 29 December 1890 are not a scar on American history, but, as the name of the small creek in South Dakota suggests, a gaping wound. Julian Humphrys explores why

Context For much of the United States’ period of westward expansion, white settlers’ attempts to claim plots of land were met with fierce and sometimes violent resistance from indigenous peoples. This resistance intensified in the latter half of the 19th century as the U.S. federal government repeatedly signed and violated treaties with various Plains tribal leaders. Most prominent among these were the Sioux Indians, of which the Lakota are a subgroup. The Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 est...