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The Ghost Dance (Caddo: Nanissáanah, [1] 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 ...
Sitting Bull Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake Sitting Bull, c. 1883 Born Húŋkešni (Slow) or Ȟoká Psíče (Jumping Badger) c. 1831 Grand River, Dakota Territory, U.S. Died December 15, 1890 (1890-12-15) (aged 58–59) Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Grand River, South Dakota, U.S. Cause of death Gunshot wound Resting place Mobridge, South Dakota, U.S. 45°31′1″N 100°29′7″W / 45. ...
Caroline Weldon (born Susanna Karolina Faesch; 4 December 1844 – 15 March 1921) was a Swiss-American artist and activist with the National Indian Defense Association. Weldon became a confidante and the personal secretary to the Lakota Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull during the time when Plains Indians had adopted the Ghost Dance movement.
In his book “Ghost Dance” (1959, Duell, Sloane & Pearce, New York) David Humphreys Miller claimed that it was John Sitting Bull who had accidentally discharged a rifle when soldiers of the 7th cavalry attempted to disarm the fugitive Lakota under chief Spotted Elk (Big Foot) that resulted in the Wounded Knee Massacre. However, most ...
All this would be brought about by the performance of the slow and solemn Ghost Dance, performed as a shuffle in silence to a slow, single drumbeat. Lakota ambassadors to Wovoka, Kicking Bear and Short Bull, taught the Lakota that while performing the Ghost Dance, they would wear special Ghost Dance shirts, as had been seen by Black Elk in
Louise Marie Buisson. James McLaughlin (February 12, 1842 – July 28, 1923) was a Canadian-American United States Indian agent and inspector, best known for having ordered the arrest of Sitting Bull in December 1890, which resulted in the chief's death and contributed to the Wounded Knee Massacre. [1] Before this event, he was known for his ...
He did ethnographic studies of the Ghost Dance, a spiritual movement among various Native American culture groups, after Sitting Bull's death in 1890. His works on the Cherokee include The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891), and Myths of the Cherokee (1900).
Before the Massacre, the US government had banned the Ghost Dance ceremony and tried to arrest Sitting Bull, who was killed while being taken into custody. The doctrine of the ghost dance was that eventually, all indigenous people would happily live with no death, illness, or sadness. [3]