Robert Utley's academic history of the Ghost Dance movement's spread among the Lakota in 1890, the federal government's response, the killing of Sitting Bull during his attempted arrest, and the massacre of Spotted Elk's band at Wounded Knee Creek on December 29, 1890, drawing on military and Bureau of Indian Affairs records alongside Lakota accounts.
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Reliability TierThe standard modern academic history of the events leading to Wounded Knee, published by a major university press and drawing on both military records and Lakota testimony; the second edition used here carries the author's later revisions. Sources
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- Wars & Conflicts, 15 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Articles, 14 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.
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