However, the increasing popularity of Ghost Dance was seen by white settlers as a sign of rebellion. The 7th Cavalry was sent by President Benjamin.
Harrison to the region, where rising tensions would lead to the massacre of hundreds of Lakota on December 29, 1890, at Wounded Knee Creek.
Federal agent Daniel Royer expressed his concerns on the Lakota people’s sacred dance routine in a cable to the U.S.
Bureau of Indian Affairs as winter of 1890 approached. He said, “Indians are wild and crazy, dancing in the snow.” “We urgently require protection.”
After the 7th Cavalry arrived, tensions increased, and as they attempted to disarm the Lakota, a shot was fired. Army combat veteran and former West Point professor. Dwight Mears described.
