Ghost dance

people lost their lives to a battle due to a religious dance, miscommunicated traditional culture, and religious conflict. The Indians had a big obstacle to get over. Life was hard for the Lakota. The animal population faded, the native buffaloes, which they used very often for their needs started to vanish, and the Lakota, who used to wander about freely, are now pushed into a small reservation. Life was very bleak. But, when the Ghost Dance arises in the reservation, those troubles drift away.

dress and on two points of in the center of the upper section of the dresses. The entire dress is decorated with motifs of five-pointed stars, birds, a turtle, a Maltese cross, and a turtle. The upper section of the dress is decorated with equally spaced white five-pointed stars that are all outlined by a light shade of orange to help distinguish them against the blue background. In the very center of the section is a simplified, red, human figure dressed in a long robe and wielding a curved object

“Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.”-Robert Brault. This quote tells anyone that there is always going to be hope, even if people are taking the wrong path or nothing is going their way. There is always an answer and that is faith. In society today, not much people have faith and it just leads them into disasters, but during the pioneer era these Indians had faith in what they believed in and many things happen, but when they did not receive what they wanted

battle (Hines 36), they only practiced religion. The Ghost Dance movement resulted in a massacre at Wounded Knee which had a lasting impact on many people. The religion of the Ghost Dance started with a man named Wovoka. On January 1, 1889, he had a ‘vision’ during a solar eclipse in Nevada (Peterson 27). It brought a message of hope to the oppressed Indians of only the Indians living. The Indians called Wovoka the ‘Messiah’ (“The Ghost Dance” par. 1) and it was believed that he would bring a

“I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes young.” These are the words of Black Elk, the medicine man of the Oglala Lakota, the tribe that was attacked by Wounded Knee Creek. The massacre included the killing of civilians, including women and children, by the Seventh Cavalry Regiment. Leading up to the

The three recordings that I chose are Adam Lambert’s Ghost Town, Sully Erna from Godsmack’s Voodoo, and Benjamin Burnley from Breaking Benjamin’s Dairy of Jane. In Ghost Town, Adam Lambert’s voice is very distinctive where he has a smooth, light, and velvety sound for a good portion of the song, however, during some portions, such as towards the ending, his timbre is very dark, rich, and full. Thought the entire song his timbre holds a somber feeling even when singing a considerably light. Sully

worried about the Ghost Dance spiritual movement the natives were performing. The natives believed they were confined to specific reserves as a kind of punishment from their gods for disobeying them. They were no longer listening to the government, and everyone was in fear at the thought of a possible rebellion.. It didn’t help that just a few weeks earlier, Sitting Bull, a Sioux Chief, was killed when reservation officers falsely accused and attempted to arrest him for being a “Ghost Dancer”. When

American Indians ‘dance out’ their religions” (Vecsey 51). There were two very important dances for the Sioux tribe, the Sun Dance and the Ghost Dance. Both dances show the nature of Native American spirituality. The Ghost Dance and the Sun Dance were two very different dances, however both promote a sense of community. “The Sun Dance was the most spectacular and important religious ceremony of the Plains Indians of 19th-century North America” (Lawrence 1). The Sun Dance became a time of

people from an empty street, then disappearing when getting dropped off to the location they said to go.” Resurrection Mary” is about a girl dying in a hit and run then being a ghost then dancing with a man named Jerry then disappearing. The plots for both of the urban legends are the same because both stories are about two ghost getting picked up and disappearing. In the urban legend “The girl in the lavender dress” it states “ There was only one house on the corner on the opposite side, Herbert made

Through the dungeon wall burst a dozen ghost horses, each ridden by a headless horseman. The assembly clapped wildly; Harry started to clap, too, but stopped quickly at the sight of Nick's face. The horses galloped into the middle of the dance floor and halted, rearing and plunging. At the front of the pack was a large ghost who held his bearded head under his arm, from which position he was blowing the horn. The ghost leapt down, lifted his head high in the air so he could see