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== Ghost Dance movement ==
{{Further|Ghost Dance}}
Sitting Bull returned to the Standing Rock Agency after working in ''Buffalo Bill's Wild West'' show. The tension between Sitting Bull and Agent McLaughlin increased, and each became warier of the other over several issues including division and sale of parts of the Great Sioux Reservation.<ref>Matteoni, ''Prairie Man'', ch. 16 and 17.</ref> In 1889, Indian Rights Activist [[Caroline Weldon]] from [[Brooklyn]], New York City, a member of the National Indian Defense Association (NIDA), reached out to Sitting Bull, acting to be his voice, secretary, interpreter, and advocate. She joined him, together with her young son Christy, at his compound on the Grand River, sharing with him and his family home and hearth.<ref name="ReferenceA">Pollack, Eileen. Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002</ref>

During a time of harsh winters and long droughts impacting the Sioux Reservation, a Paiute Indian named [[Wovoka]] spread a religious movement from present-day [[Nevada]] east to the Plains that preached a resurrection of the Native. It was known as the [[Ghost Dance]] movement because it called on the Indians to dance and chant for the rising up of deceased relatives and the return of the buffalo. The dance included shirts that were said to stop bullets. When the movement reached Standing Rock, Sitting Bull allowed the dancers to gather at his camp. Although he did not appear to participate in the dancing, he was viewed as a key instigator. Alarm spread to nearby white settlements.<ref>Matteoni, ''Prairie Man'', ch. 18.</ref>