What best describes beliefs associated with the ghost dance?

Answer 1

The Ghost Dance was a religious revival movement led by Wovoka, a Northern Paiute holy man. The Ghost Dance united Plains Indian tribes and gave them hope and faith that the whites would leave and the Buffalo would return.

Answer 2

• The Ghost Dance; also called the Ghost Dance of 1890; was a new religious movement incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems.
• According to the teachings of Jack Wilson; proper practice of the dance would reunite the living with the spirits of the dead and bring peace, prosperity, and unity to native peoples throughout the region.
• The basis for the Ghost Dance, the circle dance, is a traditional ritual which has been used by many Native Americans since prehistoric times, but this new form was first practiced among the Nevada Paiute in 1889.
• The practice was spread throughout much of the Western United States,
• As the Ghost Dance spread from its original source, Native American tribes synthesized selective aspects of the ritual with their own beliefs. This process often created change in both the society that integrated it, and in the ritual itself.
• The chief figure in the movement was the so called prophet of peace, Jack Wilson, known as Wovoka. He prophesied a peaceful end to white expansion while preaching goals of clean living, an honest life, and cross-cultural cooperation by Native Americans.
• Practice of the Ghost Dance movement was believed to have contributed to Lakota resistance. In the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, U.S. Army forces killed at least 153 Miniconjou and Hunkpapa Lakota people.
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Answer 3

It was a new religious movement incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems.

Answer 4

In the Ghost Dance, something would happen to make the white eyes (white people) disappear. The world would then return to the Indians.

Answer 5

Dead native americans would rise, the white man would disappear, and the traditional native american way of life would be restored.

Answer 6

So the Indians could get their groove on and get funky. They usually did the Dougie.

Answer 7

The people believed if they did the ghost dance the buffalo would come back and the white men would leave.