The Ghost Dance and Battle of Wounded Knee During the United States movement westward there were many people ripped from the land they owned for most of their lives, one of these people being the Sioux Indians. There were many battles within the governments relocation program of the Sioux people; one cause of a major battle was the uprising of a religion that has been come to known as the Ghost Dance religion; and the …showed first 75 words of 2328 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2328 total…to give up their land and suffered immensely in loss of living rights. The Wounded Knee massacre serves as a reminder to a time when people seen as >foreigners= were exterminated and refused their rights as Americans. Although the U.S. government has paid millions and millions of dollars in compensation, there cannot be a monetary value placed on the Lakota lands and lives that were lost in the battles of the 1880=s (Bailey, 596).