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GHOST DANCE

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 925 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GHOST See also:DANCE , an See also:American-See also:Indian See also:ritual dance, sometimes called the Spirit Dance, the dancers wearing a See also:white cloak. It is connected with the See also:doctrine of a See also:Messiah, which arose in See also:Nevada among the See also:Paiute See also:Indians in 1888 and spread to other tribes. A See also:young Paiute Indian See also:medicine-See also:man, known as Wovoka, and called See also:Jack See also:Wilson by the whites, proclaimed that he had had a See also:revelation, and that, if this ghost dance and other ceremonies were duly performed, the Indians would be rid of the white men. The See also:movement led to a sort of craze among the Indian tribes, and in 1890 it. was one of the causes of the See also:Sioux outbreak. See J. Mooney, 14th See also:Report (1896) of See also:Bureau of American See also:Ethnology.

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