Kicking Bear & Short Bull
Sioux, Miniconjou & Brule
Photograph by John C.H. Grabill
Copyright 1891

Minneconjou and Brule Sioux, Ghost Dance Leaders.
On October 9, 1890 Kicking Bear and Short Bull
brought the religion of the Paiute Messiah, Wovoka,
to the Sioux reservations. The Ghost Dance movement
envisioned the return of the buffalo to the prairie, the
disappearance of the whiteman, the rebirth of the old
ways of the Sioux and of Indians long-dead.

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