PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Wounded Knee, South Dakota, Native American Church, Ghost Dance
15 Mar 2014
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Scholars tend to treat indigenous traditions as. Indigenous traditions have radically changed, they are not artifacts from history, and their cultures and religions have changed after contact with europeans. A lot of first nations folks converted when they first met with european. A good example of new indigenous religious created in reaction to the europeans. Got its definitive form from a paiute indian from. Syncretistic hybrid of christianity and native religions. Operating in a time of westward expansion, losing land and being forced into smaller and poorer territories. Wokova received vision from sky that told him how to align all the north american traditions and turn the tide back on all the changes. Utopia would be established by spirits of the dead if this dance was done. Peace would come with white people, lands returned, buffalo would return. Us army got involved, saw it not as religion but as political upheaval. Us army massacred all the ghost dancers at wounded.
