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The ghost dance was a Native american religious dance, sort of a manifestation of their feelings towards the whites. The US soldiers hated it and called it creepy, and it ultimately lead to the infamous wounded knee massacre.
Explanation:
The ghost dance was a religious practice that Native Americans believed that proper practice would reunite living with spirits of the dead, bring the spirits of the dead to fight on their behalf, make the white colonists leave, and bring peace, prosperity, and unity to Indian peoples throughout the region.
The US soldiers hated and feared the dance and on many instances tried to ban it. The most important outcome is when the Lakota people refused to stop their ghost dance, the US soldiers ordered all Lakota weapons to be burned. A medicine man advocated armed resistance telling the other Indians that their Ghost Dance shirts were bulletproof. This ended in the Wounded knee massacre, in which 290 indians died.
