Excerpt from "Indians in a Trap," Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, PA), January 8, 1891
Preparations for war are being pressed at Pine Ridge. The camp does not look so picturesque or so peaceful as it did four weeks ago. The great villages of the Sioux, which were pitched in a half circle about the agency buildings, have disappeared. They are now part of the hostile encampment There are not so many soldiers in sight either, but there is much comfort in the knowledge that over the snow-ribbed buttes in all directions there are pitched tents of the flower of the United States cavalry and infantry. Four weeks ago the post trader's stores were filled with bucks and squaws and the ridges and swarmed with Indians mounted on ponies. There are rifle pits and fortifications on the ridges now and the stores are deserted.
The Machine Guns Beady for Business. Grim looking Hotchkiss and Gatling guns, still powder burned from their terrible work at Wounded Knee, and at the Catholic mission stand, where industrious bucks used to saw wood for the officials. The crimson cross of the army hospital is now moving alone over the northern buttes and over in the little Episcopalian church, where services were held two weeks ago, there are 30 struck by bullets while trying to escape from the deadly triangle at Wounded Knee. Pine Ridge is now a grim army camp.
Use the excerpt from "Indians in a Trap" to answer the question.
Which phenomenon most directly led to the events described?
A.
Tecumseh’s Rebellion
B.
the Allotment system
C.
the Ghost Dance movement
D.
the Second Great Awakening
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