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.

Despite the setting — a small stage filled with nine dancers — there was a feeling of separateness and sadness. The Vangeline Theater, a Butoh dance group, celebrated its 10th anniversary on February ...

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: ...

Chief Ghost Dancer never owned a pair of shoes until he joined the military. Growing up in South Florida, the tiger grass would slice his ankles as he soaked in his parents' and grandparents' stories ...

[James Mooney, an ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, was sent to investigate the Ghost Dance movement in 1891. He obtained a copy of Wovoka's message from a Cheyenne named Black Short ...

Ghost Dancers tells the history of the Ghost Dance Movement. By the winter of 1899-1890, the Lakotah’s pain had become too great to endure, and they began to give credence to a rumor about an Indian ...

The narrative. Paradise lost -- The Delaware prophet and Pontiac -- Tenskwatawa the Shawano prophet -- Tecumtha and Tippecanoe -- Kanakuk and minor prophets -- The Smohalla religion of the Columbia ...