(the) Ghost Dance

(the) Ghost Dance
a Native-American dance and religion that started among the ↑Paiute people in western ↑Nevada about 1870. The religion was based on a dance which lasted five days and which Native Americans believed would help them to get back their land. The ↑Sioux danced the Ghost Dance before the battle of ↑Wounded Knee. During the battle they wore ‘ghost shirts’ which they believed would stop bullets.

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