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TIL of the Ghost Dance War, the name given to a violent U.S. Army reprisal to Lakota participation in the pan-native cult of the Ghost Dance. Fearing a renewed Indian War, the Army crackdown led to the murder of Sitting Bull and the massacre at Wounded Knee

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