ghost dance in English
noun
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an American Indian religious cult of the second half of the 19th century, based on the performance of a ritual dance that, it was believed, would drive away white people and restore the traditional lands and way of life. Advocated by the Sioux chief Sitting Bull, the cult was central to the uprising that was crushed at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
For example, my late 1990s poem ‘Ghost Dance’ literalizes through fantasy the late 1800s Native American belief that the Ghost Dance would restore America to its precolumbian state.
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1. In 1889 the Arapaho embraced the Ghost Dance movement, and shortly
2. During hunting, Crow becomes a guide, and in ritual Crow is a key figure in the Native American Ghost dance
3. There is a vast library of historical and Cultural works about the Lakotas, many of which focus on the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee