ghost dance

ghost dance

n.

Either of two group dances associated with a messianic religious movement among Native American peoples of the Southwest and Great Plains in the late 19th century. Ghost dance prophets foretold the imminent disappearance of whites, the restoration of traditional lands and ways of life, and the resurrection of dead ancestors.

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ghost dance

n

(Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) a religious dance of certain North American Indians, connected with a political movement (from about 1888) that looked to reunion with the dead and a return to an idealized state of affairs before Europeans came

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ghost dance - a religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead ceremonial dance, ritual dance, ritual dancing - a dance that is part of a religious ritual