ghost dance

ghost dance
noun
a religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead
• Hypernyms: ↑ritual dancing, ↑ritual dance, ↑ceremonial dance

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noun
: a group dance for communication with the spirits of the dead; specifically : a messianic cult and circle dance of Plains and Plateau Indians during the late 19th century

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a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, esp. such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
[1885-90, Amer.]

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ghost dance,
a religious dance of certain North American Indians, especially a circle dance intended for communication with the dead.

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an American Indian religious cult of the second half of the 19th century, based on the performance of a ritual dance that, it was believed, would drive away white people and restore the traditional lands and way of life. Advocated by the Sioux chief Sitting Bull, the cult was central to the uprising that was crushed at the Battle of Wounded Knee

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  • Ghost-dance — A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • Ghost Dance — Noted in historical accounts as the Ghost Dance of 1890, the Ghost Dance was a religious movement incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. The traditional ritual used in the Ghost Dance, the circle dance, has been used by many… …   Wikipedia

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