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Ghost dance

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A 19th-century religious movement, incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems, according to which performing a dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead and bring prosperity and unity to native peoples.

    "It would be difficult to designate the Ghost Dance of the Indians of North America, for instance, as anything but a phenomenon of acculturation; […]."

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative letter-case form of ghost dance. alt-of
  2. 2
    One of the dances of the Ghost Dance religion.
  3. 3
    a religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead wordnet

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