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Ghost Dance

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  1. A 19th-century religious movement, incorporated into numerous Native American belief…

    A 19th-century religious movement, incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems, according to which performing a dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead and bring prosperity and unity to native peoples.

    • It would be difficult to designate the Ghost Dance of the Indians of North America, for instance, as anything but a phenomenon of acculturation; […].
    • In life, many of the Army’s victims were the followers of the Ghost Dance, a nineteenth-century faith that originated with a vision, delivered, it was said, by God to the Paiute messiah Jack Wilson, more commonly known as Wovoka.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of ghost dance.

  3. One of the dances of the Ghost Dance religion.

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