Article: Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: Poetry Songs and Great Basin Context.(Review)

Article: Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: Poetry Songs and ...
Western Folklore;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... doing fieldwork on the Wind River Shoshone reservation in Wyoming ... primary consultants for Ghost Dance Songs and Religion of a Wind River Shoshone Woman (Berkeley and Los ... Vander's focus on the Ghost Dance for her third book on Shoshone ...

Article: Coming to light: contemporary translations of the Native ...
Windspeaker;  February 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... stories of the Dunne-Za (Beaver) people of the Peace, the Iroquoian longhouse thanks-giving address, Wind River Shoshone ghost dance songs, Zuni ritual song sequences and a truly disturbing story about grizzly women, courtesy of Thompson ...

Article: Ghost Dance
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ...GHOST DANCE GHOST DANCE. The name Ghost Dance applies to two waves of a nativistic or messianic movement. Both originated among the Paiute Indians of Nevada in the nineteenth century. In 1869 a prophet named Wodziwob began to predict supernatural ...

Article: The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of ...
The American Indian Quarterly;  March 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... edition of James Mooney's 1896 The Ghost-Dance Religion. Anyone who has somehow previously ... brief biography of Mooney and places The Ghost-Dance Religion in historical and theoretical ... than just a description of the 1890 Ghost Dance, Mooney's book devotes almost half ...

Article: Wovoka and the Ghost Dance.(Review) (book reviews)
The American Indian Quarterly;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Michael Hittman. Wovoka and the Ghost Dance. Expanded Edition. Edited by Don Lynch ... portray a multifaceted picture of the 1890 Ghost Dance prophet. More importantly, though ... names), his visions, and the 1890 Ghost Dance religion that he spawned. Merely by ...

Article: The Ghost Dance
American Eras;      700+ words ...The Ghost Dance Sources Wovoka. Spreading rapidly ... the Northern Paiutes of Nevada, the Ghost Dance became the major pan-Indian religious ... delegates returned as initiates into the Ghost Dance. The Ghost Dance fit closely into ...

Article: The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game: Ghost ...
Whispering Wind;  September 1, 2004 ;     669 words ...The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game: Ghost Dance Revival and Ethnic Identity by Alexander Lesser. Introduction ... buffalo. His interviews and observations concerning the Ghost Dance religion that was embraced by the Plains tribes in the early ...