Test #1

Question 1

Wovoka (Jack Wilson)

Answer 1

c. 1856 - September 20, 1932

Think civil war dance… Timeframe

Question 2

Black Elk

Answer 2

December 1863 – August 19, 1950

Aka Nicholas

Question 3

Black Elk’s vision

Answer 3

1873

Things are getting trippy…

Question 4

Buffalo exterminated

Answer 4

1884

Question 5

Ghost Dance & wounded knee

Answer 5

1890

wounded heinee

Question 6

Black Elk Speaks

Answer 6

John Neihard 1930 recorded

Question 7

What was the ghost dance?

Answer 7

The Ghost Dance was not a really new religion but a prophetic dance based on religious assumptions already widely held by Native communities across the Americas.

Principle prophet of the Ghost Dance Wovoka.

Here are some of the key assumptions:
Ghost dancers believed that this world was coming to an end and that a new world was about to emerge.
When people and animals pass away they go inside the earth .
Where is the local past? It is inside the earth active in the local land. The local earth absorbs the lives of people and animals that have lived and passed away at that location. Although these people have died they are in some way alive inside the earth, water, and species of a given place. The water or animals that come as a blessing come out of this past in the earth.

When this world wears out it too will go inside and a new world will emerge. The new world that emerges comes out of the earth and so in some way is a return of the past ancestors and animals who have gone inside when they left this earth.