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Wovoka (c. 1856 - September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, was the Northern Paiute religious leader who founded the Ghost Dance movement. Wovoka means wood cutter in the Northern Paiute ...

While most followers of the Ghost Dance understood Wovoka's role as being that of a teacher of pacifism and peace, others did not. One alternate interpretation of the Ghost Dance may be seen in the so ...

Biography of the Paiute religious leader who developed the Ghost Dance.

Wovoka's Message: The Promise of the Ghost Dance [James Mooney, an ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, was sent to investigate the Ghost Dance movement in 1891.

Paiute ~ Wovoka ~ Ghost Dancers. Paiute (sometimes written as Piute) refers to two related groups -- Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute -- Native Americans speaking languages belonging to the Numic ...

Wovoka, which means wood cutter in the Northern Paiute language, was consumed by the plight of his people and the disparity between them and their oppressors.

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He told him of the visit he and his brother-in-law, Short Bull, had made to Nevada to visit Wovoka. They told him of the great number of other Indians who were there as well.

In a desperate attempt to return to the days of their glory, many sought salvation in a new mysticism preached by a Paiute shaman called Wovoka. Emissaries from the Sioux in South Dakota traveled to ...

Wovoka or Jack Wilson, was a spiritual leader whose influence was so great that many considered him a prophet of our Great Father. Wovoka was born in Smith Valley in 1856, the son of a medicine ...

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