Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization. See also NATIVE AMERICANS: Sitting Bull / PROTEST AND DISSENT: American Indian Movement / WAR: Wounded Knee Massacre. Policy and American culture and was a rallying To many, the Ghostĭance represented resistance to U.S. Movement, revived the Ghost Dance as part of The Ghost Dance died out among the LakotasĮlsewhere in the Plains. Many historiansĬlosing episode in the West's Indian wars. Than 300) in the Wounded Knee Massacre, thusĮliminating key leaders most opposed to the

Two weeks later, onĭecember 29, 1890, members of the SeventhĬavalry killed Big Foot and at least 145 of hisįollowers (casualty estimates range to higher Indian police killed Sittingīull while arresting him. Army and called for theĪrrest of key leaders such as Sitting Bull and Bigįoot (Si Tanka). That the Lakotas intended to start a war. Ghost Dance ceremonies and ghost shirts indicated Reservation officials viewed the movement as a Symbols, protected them from danger, includingīullets. White muslin shirts, decorated with a variety of Lakota participants added vestments knownĪs ghost shirts to the ceremonies and songsīrought by the emissaries. Lakota leaders such as Sitting Bull (Tantanka It proved particularly enticing to Lakotas suffering Provided a hopeful message to all Indians, but Restoring the Indian way of life that had existed Plentiful buffalo herds, and induce a naturalĭisaster that would sweep away whites, thus Songs would bring back dead Indians, return Several Lakota bands sent emissaries to interview Than the Lakota Sioux bands who adopted it. The first Ghost Dance tended to reject Wovoka'sįound acceptance among Plains tribes as farĮast as the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, With the dead and whites would disappear. According to the vision, if Indiansįollowed these practices, they would be reunited Wovoka experienced a vision of the Supremeīeing in 1889, after which he preached peacefulĬoexistence and a strong work ethic and taughtĬeremonial songs and dances to resurrect dead

Son, and certainly influenced by his teachings, Parts of California and Oregon but subsidedĪfter the prophecies failed to materialize. The movement spread through Nevada and to The movement earning the Ghost Dance label. The dead and taught followers to perform aĬeremonial circular dance that contributed to White people would disappear from the earthĪnd dead Indians would return to enjoy a utopian

In 1869 or 1870, Tävibo, a Northern PaiuteĪnd first Ghost Dance prophet, preached that Plains, where hundreds of adherents died in The Ghost Dance, a messianic Native AmericanĪround 1870, faded, reemerged in its bestknown 'The Ghost Dance by the Ogallala Sioux at Pine Ridge-Drawn by Frederic Remington from sketches taken on the spot.' (Harper's Weekly, December 6, 1890, p.

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