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Ghost Dance
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2001
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Ghost Dance a messianic religious frenzy among the Columbia River tribes in the 1870s, the White Mountain Apaches in 1881, and the tribes of the northern Great Plains ca. 1889-90. The Ghost Dance movement can be traced to the Paiute shaman Wovoka who preached a blissful afterlife in which believers would be reunited with dead friends and relatives, game (particularly the bison) would be plentiful, and there would be no “white man.” Among the
Lakota Sioux the movement took on an aggressive cast and led to active attempts to expel the white intruders from Indian lands which ended in the battle of
Wounded Knee in December 1890, marking the end of the
Plains Indians Wars.
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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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'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; 473 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 Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: The American Indian Quarterly; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...of James Mooney's 1896 The Ghost-Dance Religion. Anyone who has somehow...Mooney and places The Ghost-Dance Religion in historical and...description of the 1890 Ghost Dance, Mooney's book devotes almost...research of other "prophet dances," including the movements...
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Wovoka and the Ghost Dance.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: The American Indian Quarterly; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Michael Hittman. Wovoka and the Ghost Dance. Expanded Edition. Edited by...his people even after the 1890 Ghost Dance and the tragedy of Wounded Knee...Hittman's ideas about Wovoka or the Ghost Dance. The final paragraphs of this...
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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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Wovoka and the Ghost Dance. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: The American Indian Quarterly; 6/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...be read by every student of the ghost dance revival and by all those interested...Wovoka in the centenary year of the Ghost Dance revival. Hittman, in the words...with Wovoka, newspaper accounts, Ghost Dance songs of the Northern Palute...
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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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