The Ghost Dance

Ghost dance is a very important custom made by many Indians from the 1880s to the 1890s. In the 1890s, Indian civilization began to die. Ghost dance is a dance that regains the dead and tries to bring it back to the Indian. Meanwhile, it was difficult for Indians to handle all white people. The Caucasian tried to drive away the Indians from their land. In this period, Caucasians will basically manage the reservation.

"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.