Utter, Jack, compiled by, — Wounded Knee & the Ghost Dance Tragedy.

Lake Ann, MI, National Woodlands Pub Co, (1991). Memorial Ed. VG PB. Wounded Knee was much more than a brief engagements between a band of Lakotah and U.S. Army troops - it was the losing battle. in the Sioux Ghost Dance War of 1890-1891. It signified the end of a four-century armed struggle by Native Americans against multi-national, state-sponsored and often violent oppression, but the dream of freedom from Euro-American society was forever oblitereated on a December day in 1890. The U.S. Census Report declared the ending of the American Frontier.