The Ghost Dance - A promise of fulfillment

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The Ghost Dance

A promise of fulfillment

American Culture - OA-MINTCENG4-20 - Rick Trinks

By: Joney Petersen, Johanne van den Brand,

Christa van Es, Janissa van Duijn

21-09-2022
 

Topics

• Native American culture and conflicts
• Wodziwob's vision
• The battle at Little Bighorn
• Wovoka's vision
• The Ghost Dance ceremony
• The wounded knee massacre
• Summary and conclusion

Culture and conflict

1870 - Reservations 

European diseases

- 1862 - Small pox epidemic 

- 1864 - Typhiod fever

1880 - Poor living conditions

What gives you hope?

What are your rituals?

Wodziwob's vision

1870 - Walker Lake

Native American renaissance

Tribal life as they knew it was about to return

Prophesies failed to come true 

Wodziwob passed away in 1918

The battle of Little Bighorn

June 25th 1876

Lieutenant George Custer vs. Northern Plain Indians led by Chief Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull's vision

Wovoka's vision

1889

New vision

Prophecy spread to other tribes

The Ghost Dance ceremony

Mrs. Z. A. Parker's observation in 1890

Marching and chanting

Naming deceased relatives and ancestors

Raising hands upto the sky

The Ghost Dance ceremony

Mrs. Z. A. Parker's observation in 1890

Father, I come;

Mother, I come;

Brother, I come;

Father, give us back our arrows

The Ghost Dance ceremony

Mrs. Z. A. Parker's observation in 1890

People falling into a trance

Ceremony upto three times a day

5 days every 6 weeks

Fasting

The Ghost Dance ceremony

Mrs. Z. A. Parker's observation in 1890 - Ghost shirts

Sitting bull - Lakota leader

White cotton cloth, decorated with drawings of nature and feathers

Faces were painted red with a black half-moon on the forehead or cheek

Death of Sitting Bull

December 15th 1890

Killed by Indian police as precaution

The wounded knee massacre

Chief Sitanka - Miniconjou lakota people - Big Foot

Pine Ride reservation

Colonel Jamer W. Forsyth

Surrendering of weapons 

Ghost dancers and their ghost shirts

At least 300 Miniconjou men, women and childeren killed

The wounded knee massacre

The aftermath

Battle or massacre?

Congressional Medals of Honor

2021 Investigation 

The aftermath

Prophecy not fulfilled

Last know dance 1950s

Summary and conclusion

• Native American culture and conflicts
  
• Wodziwob's vision
  
• The battle at Little Bighorn
• Wovoka's vision
  
• The Ghost Dance ceremony
  
• The wounded knee massacre
  
• Summary and conclusion

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The Ghost Dance

A promise of fulfillment

American Culture - OA-MINTCENG4-20 - Rick Trinks

By: Joney Petersen, Johanne van den Brand,

Christa van Es, Janissa van Duijn

21-09-2022
 

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