A ritual dance would reunite his people with their dead. The Ghost Dance swept across other North American tribes, until fear and violence brought it to a tragic end.

Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of ...

Despite the setting — a small stage filled with nine dancers — there was a feeling of separateness and sadness. The Vangeline Theater, a Butoh dance group, celebrated its 10th anniversary on February ...

Wanáǧvi Wachípi ki̜ -- The Indian agents and the Lakota Ghost Dance -- "To protect and suppress trouble": the army responds -- Missionary views on the Lakota Ghost Dance -- "In an atmosphere pregnant ...

The narrative. Paradise lost -- The Delaware prophet and Pontiac -- Tenskwatawa the Shawano prophet -- Tecumtha and Tippecanoe -- Kanakuk and minor prophets -- The Smohalla religion of the Columbia ...