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 ...

The Indian Ghost Dance And War Barracks Ballad by Pvt. W. H. Prather, an African-American member of the Ninth Cavalry. Composed and popular among the troops during the "Sioux Outbreak" campaign of ...

“The Ghost Dance began with a man named Smohalla in the Walla Walla, Washington, area about 1830 or 1840 and this drum is from that era and that tribe,” Williams said. “It’s incredibly ...

Christian salvation narratives often focus exclusively on Jesus' relationship with humanity, but Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk and the Ghost Dance tradition proclaim a broader vision of ...