• Anton Treuer, Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), and executive director of the American Indian Resource Center at Bemidji State University in Minnesota, has said about the US government response to the Ghost Dance Movement:

Although the Ghost Dance was entirely peaceful and even preached the importance of harmony and peace between races, many US government officials and citizens feared the zeal of the dancers and the efficacy with which the ceremony seemed to unite tribal people in common purpose (even if that purpose was peace). Consequently, the Ghost Dance was outlawed by the US government in spite of the country’s constitutional protections of religious freedom. The dance was brutally suppressed by the US Army, culminating in the infamous Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890