| If they wore special ghost dance shirts, the white man's bullets could not hurt them. |
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| A member of the troupe gave a Lakota Sioux ghost dance shirt to Kelvingrove art gallery and museum. |
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| After this detour, it's late by the time I reach Pierre, South Dakota's state capital, where the ghost dance shirt is held. |
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| The Atlas, wrote Warburg, is 'a ghost story for adults', as it invents a sort of phantomic science of the image, a ghost dance, opening up hidden realities of human psychology, technology and culture. |
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| Glasgow's ghost dance shirt stands in a case of its own. |
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| In 1890 a Ghost Dance uprising in South Dakota culminated at Wounded Knee, when US troops massacred some 200 Teton Sioux. |
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| Ghost Dance is a book redolent of death and mortality, of eulogies and valedictions. |
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| The story begins with accounts of the Ghost Dance, a religion that arose in 1888 from the visions of a Nevada Paiute named Wovoka. |
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| The United States Government recognised this in the last century when it prohibited the Ghost Dance. |
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| There is a vast library of historical and cultural works about the Lakotas, many of which focus on the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee. |
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| Despite Wovoka's best efforts at promoting the core aspects of the new religion, the Ghost Dance message evolved from one of renewal to one of destruction as it was taken home by novitiates from the Plains. |
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| Wovoka is named for the Northern Paiute mystic who was born in the Smith Valley area of Nevada in 1856 and whose religious pronouncements spread the Ghost Dance among Native American tribes across the West. |
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