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.

The Ghost Dance movement was started in the 1890's by Wovoka, a Paiute man. The messiah's message declared that there would come a time when the earth would be destroyed, and a new world would be ...

This year things are (fill in the blank). No words are adequate to describe what dance we are dancing these days as the tune seems to keep changing. We are all trying to adapt by making it up as we go ...

Christian salvation narratives often focus exclusively on Jesus' relationship with humanity, but Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk and the Ghost Dance tradition proclaim a broader vision of salvation: ...

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 ...

pt. 1. Ethnohistory -- ch. 1. Ghost dance religion -- ch. 2. Massacre at Wounded Knee Creek -- ch. 3. Death or renewal? -- ch. 4. New tidings -- ch. 5. Black Elk ...