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Disposal of the corpses in a mass grave after Wounded Knee Massacre. U.S. Soldiers put away frozen
Indians after slaughter,
South Dakota (
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| Wovoka taught Paiutes the Ghost Dance (indigenousleaders.wikispaces.umb.edu). |
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| The Ghost Dance Religious Movement (Letters & Politics, Sept. 4, 2017/KPFA.org) |
The Ghost Dance Religious Movement
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| Medicine man and prophet Wovoka taught many tribes how to live (crystalinks.com) |
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| God's Red Son |
- AUDIO: The Ghost Dance Religion
In an attempt to suppress
this new American faith, the US Army killed over 200 Lakota Sioux at
Wounded Knee.
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| Wovoka (1856-1932), Paiute Medicine Man, charismatic leader (iloveancestry.com) |
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| Ghost Dance (legendsofamerica.com) |
Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling new
view of the religion known as the Ghost Dance, from its origins in the
visions of a charismatic Northern Paiute named Wovoka to the tragedy in South
Dakota.
To this day, the Ghost Dance remains widely mischaracterized as a
primitive and failed effort by Native American militants to resist US imperial conquest and return to their old pre-colonial ways.
In fact, followers of the Ghost
Dance sought to thrive in modern America by working for wages, sending their children to the white man's schools, and farming
the land as farmhands for white landowners, tenets that helped the religion
endure for decades after Wounded Knee.
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| A depiction of the sacred Ghost Dance, chanting and moving in a circle until trance |
God's Red Son powerfully reveals
how "evangelical" Ghost Dance teachings helped Native Americans retain their identity and
reshape the modern world. More
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