The History Cat: War on the Great Plains: The Last Indian Wars

Learn how the 30-year Indian Wars started and about the battles that were fought over those years. Describes the emergence and growth of the Ghost Dance movement that was initially envisioned by a Paiute medicine man named Wovoka. White people became very worried about the movement, which wanted a return to the way of life the native people had lost with the arrival of the settlers. Tensions mounted, culminating in a massacre of a group of Lakota at Wounded Knee, which ended the Indian Wars.