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The American Indian Ghost Dance, 1870 and 1890. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0-313-27469-5. Stannard, David E. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-19-508557-0. Warren, Louis S. God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America. New York: Basic ...
Wovoka was born in the Smith Valley area southeast of Carson City, Nevada around 1856. Quoitze Ow was his birth name. [4] Wovoka's father was Numu-tibo'o (sometimes called Tavibo), who for several decades was incorrectly believed to be Wodziwob, a religious leader who had founded the Ghost Dance of 1870. [5]
Ghost Dance: 1856–1932 Rudolf Steiner: Anthroposophy: 1861–1925 Swami Vivekananda: Ramakrishna Mission: 1863–1902 William Irvine [42] Two by Twos and Cooneyites: 1863–1947 Max Heindel: The Rosicrucian Fellowship: 1865–1919 Tsunesaburo Makiguchi: Soka Gakkai: 1871–1944 Sri Aurobindo: Integral yoga: 1872–1950 Mason Remey: Orthodox ...
John Wilson, Indian Territory, ca. 1900 [1] "John Wilson the Revealer of Peyote" [2] (c.1845–1901) was a Caddo medicine man who introduced the Peyote plant into a religion, became a major leader in the Ghost Dance, and introduced a new peyote ceremony with teachings of Christ. [3]
The Ghost Dance ceremony began as part of a Native American religious movement in 1889. It was initiated by the Paiute religious leader Wovoka, after a vision in which Wovoka said Wakan Tanka (Lakota orthography: Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka, usually translated as Great Spirit) spoke to him and told him directly that the ghost of Native American ancestors would come back to live in peace with the ...
In 1970, La Barre was honoured with an endowed chair, the James B. Duke Professorship of Anthropology, and he published the book that he considered to be his magnum opus, The Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion, a psychoanalytic account of the birth of religion through the lens of his treatment of the ghost dance religion of native America.
As the time period for the predicted earthquakes began to pass, many became disenchanted with Wodziwob's prophecies. This prompted him to make a third trip to the mountain, where it was revealed to him that those "who believed in the prophecy would be resurrected and be happy, but those who did not believe in it would stay in the ground and be ...
The Ghost Dance religion was founded by its prophet Wovoka in Nevada, a Paiute Indian who had a vision on 1 January 1889 during a solar eclipse. In this vision, he was taken up to heaven and given a dance (the Ghost Dance) to pass on to the Indians to ensure their place in heaven. [17] Wovoka's religion was heavily influenced by Christianity.