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Ghost Dance

Ghost Dance. Movement. Introduction. Religious movement in the 1890th Many tribes Western part of America Circle dance Leader is Wovoka. Why was it established?. Reservations Hard life: starvation, diseases, corruption Bureau of Indian Affairs Government measures

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Ghost Dance

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  1. Ghost Dance Movement

  2. Introduction • Religious movement in the 1890th • Many tribes • Western part of America • Circle dance • Leader is Wovoka

  3. Why was it established? • Reservations • Hard life: starvation, diseases, corruption • Bureau of Indian Affairs • Government measures • Convert them to Christianity

  4. Wovoka 1865-1932 • Jack Wilson • Paiute Indian • Tavibo, David Wilson • Works in Nevada • Christianity • Religious man • Visions • Leader • Why he?

  5. Wovoka’s portrait

  6. His vision • In 1878 dunring an eclipse • Journey to the spirit world. Talk with God. • Heaven like landscape • Message of God, and his gift. • The prophecy of a „new world”.

  7. Wovoka’s teachings and the reactions • Suffering a result of sins • Salvation by the help of the Ghost Dance • No use of violence but an image of a new world without white people • A kind of restoration

  8. The Dance • Men and women • Hold hands in a circle • Slow movements, course of the sun • Religious man • Ghost songs • Hypnotic trances • 4-5 days

  9. Women dance

  10. Wounded Knee Massacre 1890Why was the movement ended? • Ghost Dance: Cause, end? • Delegates of tribes • Different interpretations (E.g. Lakota shirts) • White Americans’ interpretation-violence • Indian agents: The dance is „demoralizing and disgusting”. Indians are „wild and crazy”.

  11. Wounded Knee Massacre • A positive example: Agent McGillycuddy „The comming of the troops has frightened the Indians. If the Seventh-Day Adventists prepare the ascension robes for the Second Comming of the Savior, the United States Army is not put in motion to prevent them. Why should not the Indians have the same privilege? If the troops remain, trouble is sure to come.”

  12. Wounded Knee Massacre • Comming of US troops • Plan: to arrest Sitting Bull at Standing Rock • Death of Sitting Bull • Big Foot and the Sioux tribe-Wounded Knee • Army opens fire. • Died: 25 soldiers, 153 Indians • Cause: One of them was Ghost Dance • Death of Indian culture-death of Ghost Dance

  13. Ghost shirts

  14. SONGS OF THE SIOUX1. A’te he’ye e’yayo (Opening Song)A’te he’ye e’yayo!A’te he’ye e’yayo!A’te he’ye lo,A’te he’ye lo.Nitu’ñshi’la wa’ñyegala’ke—kta’ e’yayo’!Nitu’ñshi’la wa’ñyegala’ke—kta’ e’yayo’!A’te he’ye lo,A’te he’ye lo.Ni’takuye wañye’găla’ke—kta e’yayo’!Ni’takuye wañye’găla’ke—kta e’yayo’!A’te he’ye lo,A’te he’ye lo. Translation:The father says so—E’yayo!The father says so—E’yayo!The father says so,The father says so.You shall see your grandfather—E’yayo!You shall see your grandfather—E’yayo!The father says so,The father says so.You shall see your kindred—E’yayo!You shall see your kindred—E’yayo!The father says so,The father says so. Ghost Song

  15. Thank you for your attention!

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