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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 ...
[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 ...
Mrs. Z. A. Parker, description of a Ghost Dance observed on White Clay creek at Pine Ridge reservation, Dakota Territory, June 20, 1890. We drove to this spot about 10.30 o'clock on a delightful ...
Drawing inspiration from the Ghost Dance – the spiritual movement thought to restore traditional Indigenous lands and ways of life – his art reclaims and reinterprets cultural iconography that ...
On the day we mark World Parkinson's Day, University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) is proud to announce the launch of the pioneering Museum Encounters: Parkinson’s Dance Course with three six-week ...