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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When more than 700 white settlers flooded into the Roseau River valley in 1889, they found the Ojibwe who had lived in northwestern Minnesota for generations “peaceful and friendly,” according to a ...
Wanáǧvi Wachípi ki̜ -- The Indian agents and the Lakota Ghost Dance -- "To protect and suppress trouble": the army responds -- Missionary views on the Lakota Ghost Dance -- "In an atmosphere pregnant ...