Wodziwob

Who was Wodziwob?

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Wodziwob was a Northern Paiute prophet who performed the first Ghost Dance rituals around 1869. The movement spread to other tribes, but died out before Wovoka, better known as Jack Wilson, reintroduced the movement in 1889.The chief figure in the movement was the prophet of peace, Jack Wilson, known as Wovoka among the Paiute. He prophesied a peaceful end to white expansion while preaching goals of clean living, an honest life, and cross-cultural cooperation by Native Americans. Practice of the Ghost Dance movement was believed to have contributed to Lakota resistance. In the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, U.S. Army forces killed at least 153 Lakota Sioux.[3] The Sioux variation on the Ghost Dance tended towards millenarianism, an innovation that distinguished the Sioux interpretation from Jack Wilson's original teachings. The Caddo Nation still practices the Ghost Dance today.[4]

Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Paiute influence 1.2 Round dance influence 2 The Prophet 3 Spread of the prophet's message 4 Political influence 5 Wounded Knee 6 Aftermath 7 Relevant anthropological theory 7.1 Religious revitalization model 7.2 Ghost Dance within revitalization model 8 Rejection 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External links [edit]History