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Ghost Dance

The Ghost Dance (Caddo: Nanissáanah, also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) is a ceremony incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. According to the millenarian teachings of the Northern Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka, renamed Jack Wilson, proper practice of the dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead, bring the spirits to…

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Nodes102
Edges101
Triples143
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.019608
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related to Further reading · 55
Ghost Dance → Alice Beck, American Holocaust, American West, An Indian History, Andersson, Basic Books, Brown, Bury My Heart, Cora, Dance, David, Dee, Du Bois, Ethnohistory, Gage, Gates Closed Between Us, God's Red Son, Greenwood Press, Holt Paperbacks, Il
related to Spread of the prophet's message · 20
Ghost Dance → An, Chief Kicking Bear, Early, Indian, It, James Mooney, Lakota, Latter-day Saint, Latter-day Saints, Mormons, Regardless, Scholars, The Ghost Dance, They, Through Native Americans, United States, Utah, While, Wilson's, Wovoka
related to Recordings, film, cinema, theater and industrialization · 19
Ghost Dance → Congress, East, Emile Berliner's Gramophone, Films, Ghost, Indigenous North Americans, It, James Mooney, Kinetoscope, Library, Omaha, Shortly, Sioux Ghost Dance, The, These, Thomas Edison, United States, West, William Kennedy Dickson
related to Ghost Dance ceremony · 14
Ghost Dance → Bison, Dora Goodale, During, Elaine, Ella Cara Deloria, Europeans, Eyewitness, On, Shamans, The, The Ghost Dance, Trance, Wailing, Wounded Knee Massacre
related to Modern status · 14
Ghost Dance → Brave Bird, Caddo, During, In, Instead, Kicking Bear, Lakota, Lakota Woman, Mary Brave Bird, Short Bull, The Ghost Dance, The Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee, Wovoka
related to External links · 11
Ghost Dance → Archived November, Communicating, Culture, Ghost Dance Religion, Jack Wilson, Kicking BearShort, NativeAmericanNetworks, Oklahoma History, Wayback MachineSpeech, Wovoka, YouTube
related to Rejection · 8
Ghost Dance → Another, Arizona, Despite, James Mooney, Kehoe, Navajo, Navajo's, Three
is a · 1
Ghost Dance → circle dance

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dance ghost lakota movement american wovoka would people native message wounded knee isbn dances 1890 also indian new united jack

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Ghost Danceis acircle dance0.90text
harvests or huntinginstance ofCommunity events centered on the observance of seasonal ceremonies0.80text
Ghost Dancerelated to External linksCommunicating0.60section
Ghost Dancerelated to External linksNativeAmericanNetworks0.60section
Ghost Dancerelated to External linksJack Wilson0.60section
Ghost Dancerelated to External linksArchived November0.60section
Ghost Dancerelated to External linksWayback MachineSpeech0.60section
Ghost Dancerelated to External linksKicking BearShort0.60section
Ghost Dancerelated to External linksWovoka0.60section
Ghost Dancerelated to External linksYouTube0.60section
Ghost Dancerelated to External linksOklahoma History0.60section
Ghost Dancerelated to External linksCulture0.60section

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