Ghost Dance
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The Ghost Dance is a ceremony incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. According to the millenarian teachings of the Northern Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka, renamed Jack Wilson, pro
Wovoka, the Northern Paiute spiritual leader and creator of the Ghost Dance
An Arapaho buckskin ghost shirt, ca 1890
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Caddo
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The Caddo people comprise the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, a federally recognized tribe headquartered in Binger, Oklahoma. They formerly spoke the Caddo language.
Ghost Dance
…tended to be directed towards millenarianism, an innovation that distinguished the Lakota interpretation from Jack Wilson's original teachings. The Caddo still practice the Ghost Dance today. The Northern Paiutes living in Mason Valley, in what became the U.S. state of Nevada, were known collectively as…
Caddo Nation citizens, members of the Caddo Cultural Club, Binger, Oklahoma, 2008
Caddo turkey dance, Caddo National Complex, Binger, Oklahoma, 2000: The turkey dance relays Caddo history.
Kaw-u-tz, photographed in 1906
Moccasins made by Mrs. Sien-Coit Sturm (Caddo), circa 1909, collection of the Bata Shoe Museum, in Toronto, Ontario