Gregory Smoak

This shocks people.

That news reaches the next reservation to the South, Cheyenne River.

and the leader Bigfoot, his people are practicing the ghost dance, and they flee the reservation.

They flee south.

So all of Western South Dakota at one point was the Great Sioux Reservation.

Now it's broken up into individual reservations.

They flee south towards Pine Ridge.

And they're going to Pine Ridge because the most influential Lakota leader with the United States government, Red Cloud, is there.

And so they're going there.

They don't make it to the Pine Ridge Agency because they're intercepted by the United States 7th Cavalry, Custer's old unit, and at Wounded Knee Creek.

And the morning after they intercepted, the 7th Cavalry moves to disarm the camp.

How large is this camp?

Fairly large.

It's between 400 or 500.

You know, 200 or more people are going to die.

So it's extensive casualties that come out of this.

And this is not a warrior movement.

This is, these are families?

They were moving through, trying to get to Pine Ridge so they're stopped by the cavalry.

They go into camp there the next morning, the cavalry moves