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Re: Ghost Dance « Reply #15 on Jan 15, 2004, 10:51pm »
The Ghost Dance was started by a Native American group to separate themselves from the White people. The Indians created the dance after they were push out of their homes by White pople. Wovoka, a member of the Paiute tribe began the movement of the Ghost Deance. The dance was slow shuffling movements following the courses of the sun unlike the other fast step and loud drumming Inidan dances. Both men and women were allow to be in the Ghost Dance unlike hte other dances where the main characters were men. The first dance of Ghost Dance was in 1889 held by Wovoka what was thought as Christ. The Ghost Dance was an Indian custom lost but it was never forgotten.
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Re: Ghost Dance « Reply #16 on Jan 15, 2004, 10:56pm »
In 1888 an Indian named Tavibo, he began doing the Ghost Dance Religion "He claimed that the earth would soon perish and then come alive again in a pure, aboriginal state, to be inherited by the Indians, including the dead, for an eternal existence free from suffering." To be able for them to do this they had to be honest, harmoniously, clean themselves ofthen, and don't drink alcohol. They wear these ghost shirts with eagle, buffalo, and morning-star decorations. They believed these symbols of powerful spirits would protect them from the soldiers' bullets But then the Ghost Dance religion got banned by the Whites. The religion was started by a medicine man named Wavoka.
Re: Ghost Dance « Reply #17 on Jan 15, 2004, 11:01pm »
Ghost Dance In the late 1880's, many Indian tribes faced existence of poverty, hunger and disease. They needed something to help cheer them up - the evolution of a new religion, the Ghost Dance. It was a reaction to the Indians being forced to submit to government authority and reservation life. In early 1889, Wovoka had a vison during an eclipse of the sun that he saw the second coming of Christ and received a warning about the evils of the White men. The Indian camps across the country also heard about the vison and investigative parties were sent out to discover the nature of these claims. They saw a messiah with an Arapaho hunting party, crowned with thorns, thinking it was Jesus, returned to save the Indian nations from the terrors of the White people. They sent out words to bring Wovoka in Western Nevada and return to their camps, preaching a new religion that promised renewal and revitalization of the Indian nations. People who met with Wovoka, Good Thunder, Short Bull, and Kicking Bear became leaders of the new religion which was called the Ghost Dance by White people because of its precepts of resurrection and reunion with the dead. But the Bureau of Indian Affairs banned the Ghost Dance (as they did all other Indians spiritual rituals), the Lakotas adopted it and began composing sacred songs of hope.
"The Buffalo are coming" The whole world is coming, A nation is coming, a nation is coming, The eagle has brought the message to the tribe. The Father says so, the Father says so. Over the whole earth they are coming, The buffalo are coming, the buffalo are coming, The crow has brought the message to the tribe, The Father says so, the Father says so.
The Ghost Dance religion promised an apocalypse in the coming years during which time the earth would be destroyed, only to be recreated with the Indians as inheritors of the new earth. According to the prophecy, their suffering during that time was brought by their sins, but now they had suffered enough under the White. With the Earth destroyed, White people obliterated, buried under the new soil of te spring that would cover the land and restore the prairie. The buffalo and antelope would return, deceased ancestors would rise to once again roam the Earth, free of violence, starvation, and also disease. The natural world would be restored, land once again would be free and open to the Indians without the borders and boundaries of the White men. But the ritual was against the Indian militancy and violent rebellion caused the Ghost Dance to be outlawed. The Bureau feared the growing numbers of the Ghost Dancers so they banned it.
Re: Ghost Dance « Reply #18 on Jan 15, 2004, 11:19pm »
The Ghost Dance is something the North American Indian invented to seperate themselves form the white men. Also, htey believed that it would connect them with their friends and relatives in the ghost world. It was invented on January 1889 by a Paiute Indian, Wavoka, real name, Jack WIlson. The movement, dance, spreaded from tribe to tribe, influencing many desperate Indians, who began dancing and singing the songs. It was thought of that "the world opens up and swallow all other people while the Indians and their friends would remain on this land, which would return to its beautiful and natural state." This Ghost Dance Movement only sent fear and hysteria to the white settlers. But it is one part that ended the massacre at Wounded Knee.
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The Ghost Dance was started by a Native American group to separate themselves from the White people. The Indians created the dance after they were push out of their homes by White pople. Wovoka, a member of the Paiute tribe began the movement of the Ghost Deance. The dance was slow shuffling movements following the courses of the sun unlike the other fast step and loud drumming Inidan dances. Both men and women were allow to be in the Ghost Dance unlike hte other dances where the main characters were men. The first dance of Ghost Dance was in 1889 held by Wovoka what was thought as Christ. The Ghost Dance was an Indian custom lost but it was never forgotten. 
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