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  1. Aug 9, 2024 · The first Ghost Dance developed in 1869 around the dreamer Wodziwob (died c. 1872) and in 1871–73 spread to California and Oregon tribes; it soon died out or was transformed into other cults. The second derived from Wovoka (c. 1856–1932), whose father, Tavibo, had assisted Wodziwob.

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  2. Jan 31, 2024 · Cullen328 (CC BY-SA) The Ghost Dance (Spirit Dance) is an expression of rebirth and renewal using the traditional Native American circle dance, first practiced by the Paiute Nation in 1869 and again in 1889 when it was adopted by other Plains Indians nations. US government agents' fear of the dance led to the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890.

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  3. The American Indian Ghost Dance, 1870 and 1890. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0-313-27469-5. Stannard, David E. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-19-508557-0. Warren, Louis S. God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America. New York: Basic ...

  4. 3 days ago · The Ghost Dance was born out of a period of intense struggle for Native Americans, marked by loss of land, culture, and lives due to colonization and the expansion of the United States. The late 19th century saw a series of forced relocations, broken treaties, and violent confrontations that devastated Native populations.

    • A Dark Moment in History
    • Origins of The Ghost Dance
    • Fear of The Ghost Dance
    • Role of Sitting Bull
    • Wounded Knee
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    As the ghost dance spread through western Native American reservations, the federal government moved aggressively to stop the activity. The dancing and the religious teachings associated with it became issues of public concern widely reported in newspapers. As the 1890sbegan, the emergence of the ghost dance movement was viewed by white Americans a...

    The story of the ghost dance began with Wovoka, a member of the Paiute tribe in Nevada. Wovoka, who was born about 1856, was the son of a medicine man. Growing up, Wovoka lived for a time with a family of white Presbyterian farmers, from whom he picked up the habit of reading the Bible every day. Wovoka developed a wide-ranging interest in religion...

    In 1890, the ghost dance had become widespread among the western tribes. The dances became well-attended rituals, generally taking place over a span of four nights and the morning of the fifth day. Among the Sioux, who were led by the legendary Sitting Bull, the dance became extremely popular. The belief took hold that someone wearing a shirt that ...

    Most Americans in the late 1800s were familiar with Sitting Bull, a medicine man of the Hunkpapa Sioux who was closely associated with the Plains Wars of the 1870s. Sitting Bull did not directly participate in the massacre of Custerin 1876, though he was in the vicinity, and his followers attacked Custer and his men. Following the demise of Custer,...

    The ghost dance movement came to a bloody end at the massacre at Wounded Knee on the morning of December 29, 1890. A detachment of the 7th Cavalry approached an encampment of natives led by a chief named Big Foot and demanded that everyone surrender their weapons. Gunfire broke out, and within an hour approximately 300 Native men, women, and childr...

    “The Death of Sitting Bull.” New York Times, 17 Dec. 1890.
    “It Looks More Like War.” New York Times, 23 Nov. 1890.
    “The Ghost Dance.” New York Times, 22 Nov. 1890.
    “A Devilish Plot.” Los Angeles Herald, 23 Nov. 1890.
  5. May 18, 2018 · The Ghost Dance was the major revivalist movement among nineteenth-century North American Indians. Dating from about 1870, it had its culmination in the 1890 – 1891 "messiah craze" of the Plains, which caused the last Indian war in the Dakotas. The name Ghost Dance refers to the ritual round-dances that were thought to imitate the dances of ...

  6. The movement did subside, but some groups carried on the dance well into the twentieth century. Sources. Alice Beck Kehoe, The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1989); James Mooney, The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965).

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