Gregory Smoak

That's the idea of that.

So, for instance, at Fort Hall, land sessions.

The railroad comes in in the 1880s and then the Pocatello land session.

And there's no development of irrigation.

There's no development of irrigation in a place like Fort Hall until after most of the reservation is ceded and white farmers are agitating for that irrigation development.

So you can't even become the thing that they're trying to turn you into.

Maybe that's accurate.

I'm not really certain of that estimate, but that would be about right considering Lakota populations.

Not the majority of Lakotas were ghost dancers.

Well, I think Wounded Knee is the central event that shapes public perception of the Ghost Dance for a long time.

So the way Wounded Knee came about was that as the army descended on the Lakota reservations, a number of events transpired that...

set up this situation.

Sitting Bull was assassinated

in the middle of December 1890.

The Indian agent, James McLaughlin at Standing Rock, wanted to remove Sitting Bull.

He sent Indian police out to arrest him under the premise that Sitting Bull was participating in the ghost dance.

He really wasn't.

And it turns into a shootout.

Sitting Bull and his son are killed.

This is a shocking news, right?