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Origin of The Ghost Dance - Native American Tradition

submitted by lisacat

1 decade 7 years 7 months 1 week ago

The Ghost Dance appeared during a time of desperation for the Native American Indian people. The Ghost Dance started when Paiute shaman Jack Wilson or Wovoka had a vision that if our people would dance and sing we Indians would live again. The Ghost Dance spread throughout the land. In Dec. 1890 the military panicked and massacred innocent Lakota Indian people at Wound Knee while they danced. It is one of the worse incidents in United States history. Judy Trejo - Summit Lake (Tommo Agi) and Walker River (Agi) Paiute and Anita Collins - Shoshone and Walker River Paiute speak about Wovoka. The Round Dance was a traditional Great Basin dance that spread across the land in the form of the Ghost Dance, and is now part of many celebrations. Robbie Robertson (The Band) sings "Ghost Dance" at the end.

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Saving this video from queue deletion, sending it to the top of the queue for one more try. Originally submitted on Wednesday 11th July 2007 (save called by gold star member Deano)

lol this is what happens when a group of people rely on religoin to solve a problem what a compleat bunch of retarded zealots.

"what a compleat bunch of retarded zealots"<---what a completely idiotic thing to say.

>> ^westy:
lol this is what happens when a group of people rely on religoin to solve a problem what a compleat bunch of retarded zealots.

Despite your grammatical short-comings, westy, I thought you were more insightful than that.

Or maybe you're right.

The Ghost Dance scared the shit out of the white man for some reason.

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