Ghost Dance War

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Native American history event armed conflict

The Ghost Dance War was a late 19th-century conflict between the U.S. Army and several Native American tribes, culminating in the Wounded Knee Massacre and effectively ending large-scale Indigenous armed resistance on the Great Plains.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Ghost Dance	1
Ghost Dance War canonical	1

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Native American history event ⓘ armed conflict ⓘ
belligerent	Miniconjou Lakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Oglala Lakota NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
conflictBetween	Lakota Sioux NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Army NERFINISHED ⓘ other Native American tribes ⓘ
culminatedIn	Wounded Knee Massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ
describedAs	final major armed conflict between the U.S. Army and Plains tribes ⓘ
endTime	1891 ⓘ
ethnicGroupInvolved	Lakota NERFINISHED ⓘ Sioux NERFINISHED ⓘ other Plains tribes ⓘ
followedBy	period of reduced open armed conflict between U.S. and Plains tribes ⓘ
hasCause	Ghost Dance religious movement NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. government suppression of Native religious practices ⓘ loss of Native lands on the Great Plains ⓘ tensions over reservation policies ⓘ
hasSignificance	effectively ended large-scale Indigenous armed resistance on the Great Plains ⓘ marked the violent suppression of the Ghost Dance movement ⓘ
hasTopic	U.S.–Native American relations NERFINISHED ⓘ cultural suppression ⓘ millenarian religious movements ⓘ
involves	Native American religious freedom ⓘ U.S. Indian policy ⓘ reservation system ⓘ
location	Great Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ Pine Ridge Indian Reservation NERFINISHED ⓘ South Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableCommander	U.S. Army officers on the Plains ⓘ
partOf	American Indian Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ history of United States expansion ⓘ history of the Lakota people ⓘ
precededBy	Great Sioux War of 1876 NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedEvent	Wounded Knee Massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ killing of Sitting Bull ⓘ
religiousContext	Ghost Dance NERFINISHED ⓘ
result	U.S. victory ⓘ further confinement of Native Americans to reservations ⓘ increased federal control over Native American affairs ⓘ
startTime	1890 ⓘ
timePeriod	late 19th century ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nelson A. Miles → participantIn → Ghost Dance War ⓘ

Ghost Dance religious movement → hasMainName → Ghost Dance War ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ghost Dance