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The Ghost Dance — The Movement That Terrified America

They were not gathering to fight.
They were gathering to bring the world back.
In the late 19th century, as Native nations were being crushed by reservations, starvation, disease, and cultural erasure, a new movement began to spread across the Plains. It did not promise weapons. It did not call for war. It promised something far more dangerous to those in power.
It promised that history could be undone.

The Ghost Dance was a spiritual movement that swept through Native communities at the moment of their greatest collapse. It taught that the buffalo would return, the dead would rise, the old world would be restored, and the invading civilization would disappear. For the Lakota and many other nations, it was not rebellion.
It was survival.
But to the United States government, it looked like something else entirely.
A mass movement.
A spiritual awakening.
A belief that could not be controlled.
And that made it terrifying.

This documentary explores the rise, spread, and destruction of the Ghost Dance movement. From the visions of the Paiute prophet Wovoka to its rapid spread across the Plains, from the desperate hope of reservation life to the fear it provoked among federal authorities, and finally to the events that led directly to the massacre at Wounded Knee, this film traces how one of the most powerful spiritual movements in Native history became the final chapter of the Indian Wars.

Inside this story:
– Life on the reservations and the collapse of the old world
– The extermination of the buffalo and mass starvation
– The visions of Wovoka and the birth of the Ghost Dance
– The spread of the movement across Native nations
– The meaning of the ritual and its spiritual promises
– Why U.S. authorities panicked
– The attempt to suppress the Ghost Dance
– The death of Sitting Bull
– Wounded Knee and the destruction of the movement
– And what the Ghost Dance truly represented

The Ghost Dance was not dangerous because it called for war.
It was dangerous because it refused to accept that the world was gone.
On Fragments of History, we explore the moments when entire ways of life faced extinction — and how people tried to survive the impossible.

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