A ritual dance would reunite his people with their dead. The Ghost Dance swept across other North American tribes, until fear and violence brought it to a tragic end.

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 ...

James Mooney (1861-1921) was an American ethnographer whose research focused on Native North Americans, particulary the Cherokee and other Southeast tribes, the Ghost Dance religion, and the Kiowa and ...

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 ...

The definition of a ghost light? It’s a safety precaution in theaters, often a single bulb, left on after hours, so unsuspecting staff won’t cross the darkened stage and trip over a prop or fall into ...

PIERRE — Gov. Kristi Noem defended her remarks about a gang operating on one of South Dakota’s reservations and on the western side of the state Thursday morning. But after the second-term Republican ...