Native Americans resisted U.S. expansion and cultural assimilation through various means, notably exemplified by leaders like Sitting Bull, who advocated for unity and resistance against oppression. The Ghost Dance movement emerged as a spiritual revival, promoting the idea of a return to ancestral ways and a restoration of Native lands. This resistance culminated in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, where U.S. troops violently suppressed a group of Lakota Sioux practicing the Ghost Dance, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Native Americans and marking a tragic end to armed resistance.
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