On this day, December 29, 1890, Chief Spotted Elk’s band of Mni Coujou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Sioux were intercepted by the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment fleeing from the Standing Rock Agency to the Pine Ridge Agency. At this time, the Mni Coujou and Hunkpapa mourned the death of Chief Sitting Bull, only 14 days prior […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall 2009 In March 2007, the first Plains Indian Museum “Treasure” in Points West was a Ghost Dance dress. As the story went, Plains Indian people faced poverty, disease, and death on reservations by the late nineteenth century. Led by the Paiute visionary Wovoka, the Ghost Dance religion brought hope […]