Spirit Dance

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Spirit Dance is another name for the Ghost Dance, a late 19th-century Native American religious movement that sought spiritual renewal and the restoration of indigenous lands and ways of life.

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instanceOf Native American religious movement
religious movement
alternateName Ghost Dance NERFINISHED
associatedWithEvent Wounded Knee Massacre NERFINISHED
documentedIn late 19th-century ethnographic accounts
hasBelief anticipated disappearance of white settlers
prophecy of a renewed world
return of ancestors
return of the buffalo
hasCulturalContext Native American spirituality NERFINISHED
hasGoal restoration of indigenous lands
restoration of traditional ways of life
spiritual renewal
hasKeyFigure Wovoka NERFINISHED
hasLanguageContext various Native American languages
hasOutcome increased U.S. military repression
strengthening of Native spiritual identity
hasPeakTime 1890
hasRitualObject Ghost Dance shirts
hasStartTime 1880s
hasTheme anti-colonial struggle
cultural revitalization
nonviolent resistance
hasTimePeriod late 19th century
hasType millenarian movement
revitalization movement
influencedBy Christian millenarian ideas
involves circle dancing
ritual singing
trance states
originatedIn Western United States NERFINISHED
perceivedAs threat by United States authorities
practicedBy Arapaho NERFINISHED
Cheyenne NERFINISHED
Lakota Sioux NERFINISHED
Northern Paiute NERFINISHED
Shoshone NERFINISHED
various Plains tribes
religiousTradition Native American religion
studiedInField Native American history
anthropology
religious studies
suppressedBy United States government NERFINISHED

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