Prophet Dance

Prophet Dance

▪ North American religion
      North American Plateau Indian ritual of the early 19th century during which the participants danced in order to hasten the return of the dead and the renewal of the world, particularly the world as it was before European contact. The Prophet Dance was a precursor of the famous Ghost Dance movement of the 1870s and 1890s.

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