单词 | ghost dance |
释义 | Ghost Dancen. Now historical. 1. Among certain North American peoples in the late 19th cent.: a shuffling, circular ritual dance, often lasting several days, intended to bring about the restoration of traditional lands and ways of life, the expulsion of white settlers, and the return of the dead.See note at sense 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > American Indian dancing > [noun] canticoy1670 corn dance1726 pipe dance1778 bear dance1784 sun dance1849 Ghost Dance1876 matachin1882 chicken dance1888 Ghost Dancing1890 snake-dance1931 society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > dance > [noun] canticoy1670 snake dance1772 ritual dance1805 cyclic chorus1846 sun dance1849 Ghost Dance1876 kagura1884 kachina dance1888 Ghost Dancing1890 tripudium1909 ring-shout1926 trance dance1935 Shango1941 1876 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Weekly Tribune 25 Oct. The ghost dance at which I was present had five ghosts. 1890 Daily News 25 Nov. 6/3 All the western tribes..are dancing the Ghost Dance, and looking forward to the coming of the Great Leader. 1896 W. Cather Tommy Unsentimental in S. O'Brien Willa Cather Stories (1987) 69 They just came down like the wolf on the fold. It sounded like the approach of a ghost dance. 2006 T. M. Kerstetter God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land iii. 91 Although several other tribes that practiced the Ghost Dance adopted the ghost shirt, only the Sioux imbued it with bulletproof qualities. 2. A religious movement among certain North American peoples in the late 19th cent., based on participation in the Ghost Dance (see sense 1) and intended to bring about the restoration of traditional lands and ways of life, the expulsion of white settlers, and the return of the dead. The first movement developed in 1869, when a Northern Paiute man, Wodziwob, had a vision in which he saw the removal of white settlers from the earth by means of a large earthquake. Usage in this sense was originally and most commonly with reference to the movement inspired by the visions of the Northern Paiute prophet, Wovoka, in the late 1880s and incorporated into ongoing resistance to the U.S. Federal government by peoples of the northern Great Plains, esp. the Lakota Sioux. Official concern at the spread of this movement is typically viewed as an important contributory factor in, e.g., the killing of Sitting Bull and the massacre at Wounded Knee (both in December, 1890). ΚΠ 1891 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 4 57 Following the lines of other ancient Indian cults, the people fell in trances as they danced, and were supposed to talk with the dead and learn of the future life. From this simple beginning the ‘Ghost Dance’ grew. By and by people began to tell that the Messiah had been seen in the White Mountains near Mexico, and others heard of him in the mountains of the Northwest. 1986 R. B. Morrison & C. R. Wilson Native Peoples xxvi. 532 Anthropologists have analyzed the series of Indian attempts early in the colonial era to regain control of their lives by religio-political means as a series of revitalization movements. The Longhouse Religion of the Iroquois, the Ghost Dance of the Sioux, the Native American Church, and the Shakers of the west coast are historic examples still current. 2000 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide II. ii. 594/1 Reservations..have long been on the touring itineraries of visiting Jamaican artists, whose message of deliverance from Babylon echoes the sentiments of the Ghost Dance—before its demise at the hands of the US Cavalry. Compounds As a modifier, in the sense ‘of or belonging to the Ghost Dance’, as in Ghost Dance religion, Ghost Dance song. ΚΠ 1890 Weekly Reg.-Call (Central City, Colorado) 21 Nov. Both these men had been doing their utmost to quiet the Indians, and had carried their opposition to the ghost-dance craze so far Monday that knives were drawn on them by the infuriated reds. 1891 Chautauquan Mar. 788/1 The chanting of the monotonous ‘Ghost Dance songs’ alternated with invocations by the priests and with the most heart-rending crying. 1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Feb. 81/2 In 1890 the Ghost Dance religion reached the Dakotas. 1969 A. Ginsberg Interview in Spontaneous Mind: Interviews (2001) 183 Shamanistic white magic, ghost-dance rituals, massive nakedness and distribution of flowers might have broken through the police-state hallucination-politics theater wall. 1990 M. Crow Dog & R. Erdoes Lakota Woman (1991) x. 149 Short Bull and his friends Kicking Bear and Good Thunder had received this message from Wovoka himself, the Paiute holy man to whom the Ghost Dance religion had been given in a dream on the day the sun had died. 2010 H. Bloom in Native Amer. Writers (new ed.) Introd. 3 The polarities of the Ghost-Dance songs are part of the heritage of modern Native American literature. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Ghost Dancev. Now chiefly historical. intransitive. To perform a Ghost Dance. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > American Indian dancing > [verb (intransitive)] canticoy1675 Ghost Dance1897 society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > dance > [verb (intransitive)] canticoy1675 Ghost Dance1897 1897 Washington Post 30 June 1/2 300 Indians, mostly Bannocks, from the Lemhi agency and some from the Nevada, are ghost-dancing in the Cumas prairie. 1974 R. Means in A. Notes Voices from Wounded Knee, 1973 89/1 The white man says that the 1890 massacre was the end..of the Ghost Dance. Yet here we are.., and we're Ghost Dancing again. 2003 Navajo Times (Window Rock, Arizona) (Electronic ed.) 17 Apr. c1 Lakotas said they are ready to fight if necessary to defend the remains of those who were massacred here as they Ghost Danced. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1876v.1897 |
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