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Ghost dance
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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1997
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Ghost dance. The most famous
millennial movement among the N. American Indians, amongst the destitute tribes of the Great Basin and the Plains in 1889–90. The founder was Wovoka (
c.1856–1932), a Paiute, also called Jack Wilson. After a mystic experience of visiting
heaven, he proclaimed the peaceful coming of a paradisal age in which the depleted buffalo and the ancestors (i.e. ‘ghosts’, hence the name) would return and the whites would depart. Its coming would be hastened by moral reform and the newly revealed round dance which, after several days of dancing, led to meeting the ancestors in a visionary trance. The movement among the Sioux was regarded by many whites as more militant; this culminated in the massacre of some 300 at Wounded Knee in Dec. 1890. With hopes thus crushed, the movement passed its peak by 1892; it lingers on among some tribes and provided the inspiration for the confrontation between Indians and government forces at ‘Wounded Knee II’ in S. Dakota in 1973.
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Ghost Dances and Identity: PROPHETIC RELIGION AND AMERICAN INDIAN ETHNOGENESIS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Magazine article from: Montana; The Magazine of Western History; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...was the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance, or Nazanga, movement...dominance, the Ghost Dance provided not only a...1870 and 1890 Ghost Dances manifested as a religious...racial identity through Ghost Dances. Aside from this minor...literature about the Ghost Dance ...
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The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization, 2nd ed.
Magazine article from: Plains Anthropologist; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory...places the Ghost Dance movements within a larger...description of the Ghost Dances, to the Wounded Knee...new scholarship on the Ghost Dance, Prophet Dances, and other Native spiritual...of the Lakota Ghost Dance and ...
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Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion...found expression in the Ghost Dance prophesies of the late nineteenth century. As such, these dances were not "short-lived and...fantasies," as the Lakota Ghost Dance movement is generally described...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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'Ghost Dances' headlines Ballet West finale
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 4/3/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...teaches Christopher Bruce's "Ghost Dances" to dancers, she has...them a little more." "Ghost Dances" will be part of the repertory...Ballet West performed "Ghost Dances" for the first time and received...amazing performance." "Ghost Dances" was inspired during the ...
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No chance of stage fright in ghostly performance ; Stage fright was not an option for North Lindsey College students who trod the boards for their adaptation of Ghost Dances.
Newspaper article from: Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph; 12/24/2008; 466 words
; ...for their adaptation of Ghost Dances. The performance was...contemporary and folk dance. As part of the piece...for the performance. Dance student Katrina Norris...since young ages. Ghost Dances has been a good challenge...good insight into other dance styles, this has ...
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Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: Poetry Songs and Great Basin Context
Magazine article from: Western Folklore; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: Poetry Songs and Great Basin...principal precursor to the Pan-Indian Ghost Dance. Although she gives brief outlines...differs remarkably from any previous Ghost Dance studies, most of which center on historical...
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The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game: Ghost Dance Revival and Ethnic Identity.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Whispering Wind; 9/1/2004; ; 669 words
; The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game: Ghost Dance Revival and Ethnic Identity by Alexander Lesser. Introduction...hunted the buffalo. His interviews and observations concerning the Ghost Dance religion that was embraced by the Plains tribes in the early...
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 "Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)")
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Leslie Marmon Silko: 'Ghost Dance lives'; On running away and running to, writing as revelation
Newspaper article from: Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 6/7/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Lakota Times) 06-07-2000 Leslie Marmon Silko: `Ghost Dance lives'; On running away and running to, writing...for the advent of Wovoka and the possibility of the Ghost Dance. "The Ghost Dance was very upsetting to the United States government...
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Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: Poetry Songs and Great Basin Context.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: Poetry Songs and Great Basin...Continuing the work of her first two books, Ghost Dance Songs and Religion of a Wind River...to present the music and texts for 130 Ghost Dance songs, to place the songs within...
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The 1870 Ghost Dance.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Oregon Historical Quarterly; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; THE 1870 GHOST DANCE by Cora Dubois edited by Thomas Buckley...DuBois's classic 1938 study of the 1870 Ghost Dance. This text is well known to specialists...recognizable as James Mooney's work on the Ghost Dance of the late 1880s and 1890. Buckley...
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Ghost Dance
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
GHOST DANCE GHOST DANCE. The name Ghost Dance applies to two waves of a nativistic or...Tensions mounted in late 1890 after Sitting Bull, a leader of the Ghost Dance at Standing Rock Reservation, was killed by Indian police attempting...
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The Ghost Dance
Book article from: American Eras
The Ghost Dance Wovoka. Spreading rapidly from it origins...religious worldview of the Paiutes. Ghost Dance teachers, therefore, had to select...seeking to resist white control, the Ghost Dance recalled the tribe ’ s Sun...
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ghost dance
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
ghost dance A MILLENNARIAN movement which spread among the Native American PLAINS PEOPLES during the second half of the 19th century. The ghost dance, which involved dancing for days on end to induce a trancelike state...
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Ghost dance
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Ghost dance. The most famous millennial movement among...and the ancestors (i.e. ‘ghosts’, hence the name) would return...moral reform and the newly revealed round dance which, after several days of dancing...
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ghost
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
ghost now chiefly, an apparition of a dead person...probably influenced by Flemish gheest . Ghost Dance an American Indian religious cult of the...crushed at the Battle of Wounded Knee. ghost in the machine the mind viewed as distinct...
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