![]() ![]() However, it was the messianic Ghost Dance of 1890 that attracted general attention because of its message and consequences. There were other American Indian ceremonial dances that were called ghost dances -for instance, a ritual dance among the Iroquois. The name Ghost Dance refers to the ritual round-dances that were thought to imitate the dances of the dead and were performed to precipitate the renewal of the world and the return of the dead. ![]() Dating from about 1870, it had its culmination in the 1890 –1891 "messiah craze" of the Plains, which caused the last Indian war in the Dakotas. The Ghost Dance was the major revivalist movement among nineteenth-century North American Indians. ![]()
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