The Ghost Dance

Ghost dance In January 1889, Paiute Indian Wawoka was inspired during the total solar eclipse. This is the origin of the religious movement and it will be called ghost dance. It is this dance that the Indians will make them believe that they will meet with friends and relatives in the ghost world. According to legend, after the prayers and ceremonies, the earth is destroyed and flooded, flooding enemies of white and enemies without affecting the earth, as settlers came before Americans.

"Ghost dance" is a very general term covering various religious revival movements in the western part of the United States. In 1870, Paiute prophet Wodziwob founded ghost dance, Wovoka (Jack Wilson) founded a ghost dance religion from 1889 to 1890, he is also a North Paiute. Ghost dance is designed to respect deceased people when they associate with traditional lifestyles and predict resurrection. In December 1888, Wokoka was thought of as the son of a medical scientist Tabibo (Numu-tibo'o) who became sick during the solar eclipse of January 1, 1889. After the recovery he predicted that he visited the spiritual world and the supreme being, the world ended soon, then predicted to return to the state of indigenous people purely before the Messiah. In order to live forever without suffering, all Native Americans will inherit this world, including dead ones.

By 1889, many Sioux Indians gathered in the wounded knees of Pine Ridge booking to participate in the ghost dance. Ghost dance began with Paiutes, practiced by many ordinary Indians in the 1870s and 1880s, and is part of the religious Renaissance movement. The prophet called Wowoka (or Jack Wilson) shared his spiritual vision and hope with the American natives They experienced decades of destruction of the treaty, loss of land, and forced migration. Physical deprivation and death Wovoca conveyed a positive message of peace, but some Native Americans interpreted this vision as calling for positive resistance to restore their lost land . Lacotasu also used even special clothing they thought they could prevent white bullets.

Following the ban on Sundance, Lakota adopted ghost dance. Ghost dance was completed as a substitute for ban, not as a substitute for sundance. The focus of ghost dance is to gain a vision of a dead relationship through bondage. This is a resurrection dance, not self - sacrifice. Even when ghost dancing, Sundance is still a secret. The Indian who contributed most to the resurgence of Sundance was black moose. Black elk became the leader of ghost dance for the first time in 1890. In 1904, black elk had accepted the Catholic Church and became a symbol of missionaries and Catholic churches. # Black Elk 's way of thinking about the sun' s dance, it is a secret, but it has not ended yet, it does not have to resurrect. From the eyes of black moose, what needs to be revived is its influence and the central position of religion of his people.