US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. Tensions erupted violently over two major issues: the Sioux practice of the “Ghost Dance,” which the U.S. government had outlawed, and the dispute over whether Sioux reservation land would be broken up because of the Dawes Act.

The ghost dance was a religious revitalization uniting Indians to restore ancestral customs, the disappearance of whites, and the return of buffalo. Setting about a sense of national identity for the tribal Indians, those who rejected becoming civilized.

What is the problem with the term Native American. it includes a diverse group from under the same generic name, it originated from the perception of Whites, It doesn’t reflect the Indians’ names for themselves. You just studied 38 terms!

The army attempted to stop the revival, forcibly if necessary. How did the army respond to the Ghost Dance in the late 1800s? Machines produced in the Northeast allowed farmers to harvest the crops.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) eventually banned the Ghost Dance, because the government believed it was a precursor to renewed Native American militancy and violent rebellion. Non-Indians often called the Ghost Dance the Messiah Craze.

The Ghost Dance was a spiritual movement that arose among Western American Indians. It began among the Paiute in about 1869 with a series of visions of an elder, Wodziwob. These visions foresaw renewal of the Earth and help for the Paiute peoples as promised by their ancestors.

Why did the Ghost Dance movement spread so quickly in Native American reservations in the late 1880s and early 1890s? The dance fostered native peoples’ hope that they could drive away white settlers. ruled that Congress could ignore all existing Indian treaties.

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The Ghost Dance was associated with Wovoka’s prophecy of an 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 to assimilation under the Dawes Act.

Scholars interpret the end of the dance as a result of the US government forcing tribes to stop, responding to the fears of those white settlers who saw it as a threat and tribes losing interest as the prophecies were not coming to pass.

The religious frenzy engendered by Ghost Dancing frightened American and immigrant settlers, particularly in the Dakotas, the traditional home of most of the Sioux tribes; concurrently, the U.S. military was concerned that Sitting Bull would try to exploit the movement to engineer an uprising.

Some historians speculate that the soldiers of the 7th Cavalry were deliberately taking revenge for the regiment’s defeat at the Little Bighorn in 1876. Whatever the motives, the massacre ended the Ghost Dance movement and was the last major confrontation in America’s deadly war against the Plains Indians.

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Wounded Knee: Ghost Dance and Sitting Bull On December 15, 1890, reservation police tried to arrest Sitting Bull, the famous Sioux chief, who they mistakenly believed was a Ghost Dancer, and killed him in the process, increasing the tensions at Pine Ridge.

The Ghost Dance costumes, with their designs and materials pulled from the natural world, were a rejection of white settlers’ material culture. In an effort to return to the natural state that had existed before the westward expansion of white settlers, the costumes were designed with images of stars and animals.

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Sun Dance, most important religious ceremony of the Plains Indians of North America and, for nomadic peoples, an occasion when otherwise independent bands gathered to reaffirm their basic beliefs about the universe and the supernatural through rituals of personal and community sacrifice.

Scholars believe that in 1890 chief Kicking Bear introduced the concept to his people, the Lakota. In Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Player Piano, a faction revolting against the rigidly hierarchical, mechanized United States of the future calls itself the Ghost Shirt Society.

Vonnegut uses the player piano as a metaphor to represent how even the most simple of activities, such as teaching oneself how to play the piano in one’s spare time, has been replaced by machines instead of people.

The Lakota Sioux were the only tribe to believe that the ghost shirt clothing would protect them from the bullets of the white man.

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A pianist (US: /piːˈænɪst/ pee-AN-ist, also /ˈpiːənɪst/ PEE-ə-nist)is an individual musician who plays the piano.

The last manufacturer of pianola music rolls in Australia closed in 2005, but the rolls are still made in the USA.

Player piano, a piano that mechanically plays music recorded by means, usually, of perforations on a paper roll or digital memory on a computer disc. …

It costs $99,300 for the 5-foot-7-inch-long, 560-pound Model M Spirio and $133,800 for the 6-foot-10.5-inch, 760-pound Model B Spirio. The piano is a far cry from the days when Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky tickled the ivories.

As the roll unfurls, air passes through tiny, carefully placed holes in the paper to activate individual notes on the piano. The person does not need to touch the keys; instead, the player piano “reads” the roll and plays the notes on its own.

The development of the player piano was the gradual overcoming of the various difficulties of controlled percussive striking and note duration. The earliest practical piano playing device was probably the Forneaux Pianista, which used compressed air to inflate a bellows when the barrel pin opened a valve.

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