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Definition of Ghost dance
1. Noun. A religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghost Dance
Literary usage of Ghost dance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive Traits in Religious Revivals: A Study in Mental and Social Evolution by Frederick Morgan Davenport (1905)
"The latter had far greater extension, but the former is notable for its peculiar
method which was copied in the ghost-dance. We shall therefore pause to ..."
2. Early Civilization: An Introduction to Anthropology by Alexander Goldenweiser (1922)
"The Ghost-Dance Religions of the North American Indians While the psychological
origin of religion can be made clear at least theoretically, we know next to ..."
3. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1903)
"ghost dance. INVITATIONS: Written on black cards with white Draw tiny skull ...
A ghost dance. 'Your shade is expected to attend A Ghostly Gathering which ..."
4. From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian by Charles Alexander Eastman (1916)
"... THE ghost dance WAR A RELIGIOUS craze such as that of •**• 1890-91 was a thing
foreign to the Indian philosophy. I recalled that a hundred years before, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"East of the Rocky Mountains this dance •oon came to be known as the "ghost dance"
and a common feature wae hypnotic trances. The Sioux outbreak of 1890-1891 ..."
6. The Red Record of the Sioux: Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian by Willis Fletcher Johnson (1891)
"M., and having left the road usually traveled by men visiting the settlement, we
got upon them unexpectedly, and found a ghost dance at its height. ..."
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