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Frozen corpses twisted into grotesque shapes. Women with little children strapped onto their backs. Mothers futilely protecting their babes in their arms. Young boys filled with bullets. This is how the Indians were found. Death and destruction reigned everywhere on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek. On Dece ....
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.... to their reservations. The Sioux struggled to uphold to many of their old customs and traditions and were torn from the only life that they ever knew. The once proud Sioux found their free-roaming life destroyed, the buffalo gone, and themselves confined to reservations dependent on Indian agents for their existence. So the Indians obstinately clung onto the one thing that they had left - their religion. For the Sioux people, this dominated nearly every thought and action.
In 1889, one of the most powerful medicine men, Wovoka of the Pauite tribe, had a vision. He had seen the buffa ....
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