单词 | ghost dance religion |
释义 | > as lemmasGhost Dance religion 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. < as lemmas |
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