All Videos Tagged Great (Totem Talk) - Totem Talk 2024-05-17T07:15:44Z https://totemtalk.ning.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=Great&rss=yes&xn_auth=no Paiute Native American Shaman Wovoka and the Ghost Dance tag:totemtalk.ning.com,2010-04-25:5521792:Video:1157 2010-04-25T05:35:11.000Z Terri Benning https://totemtalk.ning.com/profile/TerriBenning <a href="https://totemtalk.ning.com/video/paiute-native-american-shaman"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2182364820?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>The Ghost Dance appeared during a time of desperation for the Native American Indian people. The Ghost Dance started when Paiute shaman Jack Wilson or Wovoka had a vision that if our people would dance and sing we Indians would live again. The Ghost Dance spread throughout the land. In Dec. 1890 the military panicked and massacred innocent Lakota Indian people at Wound Knee while… <a href="https://totemtalk.ning.com/video/paiute-native-american-shaman"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2182364820?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />The Ghost Dance appeared during a time of desperation for the Native American Indian people. The Ghost Dance started when Paiute shaman Jack Wilson or Wovoka had a vision that if our people would dance and sing we Indians would live again. The Ghost Dance spread throughout the land. In Dec. 1890 the military panicked and massacred innocent Lakota Indian people at Wound Knee while they danced. It is one of the worse incidents in United States history. Judy Trejo - Summit Lake (Tommo Agi) and Walker River (Agi) Paiute and Anita Collins - Shoshone and Walker River Paiute speak about Wovoka. The Round Dance was a traditional Great Basin dance that spread across the land in the form of the Ghost Dance, and is now part of many celebrations. Robbie Robertson sings "Ghost Dance".