Kicking Bear
Sioux, Miniconjou
Photographed by William Dinwiddie
Copyright 1896

Miniconjou Sioux Kicking Bear, along with
Short Bull, was the principal leader of the Ghost
Dance religion among the Indians at Pine Ridge
and Stand Rock Agencies. The resulting terror marked
the Sioux's last armed conflict with the U.S. Army at the
Massacre of Wounded Knee (December 29, 1890).

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