Sentence examples for ghost dance from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A 19th-century religious movement, incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems, according to which performing a dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead and bring prosperity and unity to native peoples.
They played "Ghost Dance," a song they had written together for Easter.
The Sun Dance and Ghost Dance of the western groups reflect earlier religious practices and reactions to white settlement.
Glasgow's ghost dance shirt stands in a case of its own.
The Prophet Dance was a precursor of the famous Ghost Dance movement of the 1870s and 1890s.
If they wore special ghost dance shirts, the white man's bullets could not hurt them.
These rites, known as the Ghost Dance, caused alarm among whites and led to federal military intervention.
Some compositions: 1958 Nocturne; '62 Scenes and Arias; '66 Sinfonia; '73 Life Studies; '83 Spring Music; '86 Odyssey; '88 Ghost Dances; '91 Piano Trio; '93 Violin Concerto; '96 Hymnus.
This autumn will be one of Rambert's busiest seasons yet: there are rehearsals for The Creation which, with 120 performers, is the company's biggest work to date, with a set by Pablo Bronstein; it is also resurrecting Bruce's Ghost Dances and Alexander Whitley's Frames, as well as running a national tour.
Winner Roadster Grr.c.3 by Quality Road out of Ghost Dancing, by Silver Ghost.
These are the narratives of what anthropologists call millenarian movements -- cargo cults in Melanesia, or the American Indian Ghost Dances of the 19th century.
Their counterparts from the resource extraction community, likewise, cannot come to terms with defeat and hold "ghost dances" to bring back the good old days when they were undisputed Kings of the West.
