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GHOST DANCE

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 925 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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