Many were shocked by George Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn. After all, the flamboyant general had supposedly once said, "there are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cava...
"You are mistaken in supposing you are a free and independent nation. . . . You are a subdued people, you have been overcome in war in which you entered into with us." "The Indians, being the prior...
Number of Cherokees marched to present-day Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears: 16,000 Number of Cherokees who died on the Trail of Tears: 4,000
Total number of Indians removed or scheduled for removal...
National Congress of American Indians
Ghost Dance A variation on the round, or circle, dance, the Ghost Dance was an ancient Indian ritual that experienced a revival between the 1870s and 1890s. During the Ghost Dance—a five-day...
