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The Ghost Dance Cult
The Ghost Dance Cult was a religous movement among Native Americans during the late1800’s in the far west. It offered the Indians hope ofspiritual renewal and a return to their oldway of living. The religion promised that dead Indian ancestors and game animals would comeback to ....
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.... by a procession led by Chief Tarino to Mission San Jose's centennial anniversary celebration. Legend had it that this same chief helped lay the cornerstone at the mission in 1797 when he was 25 years old. To some of the Ohlone, another Californian tribe, Chief Tarino must have seemed an ancestral ghost. 1897 marked the 125th anniversary of his birth. Tarino leading this procession was very significant, he brought his people to the Catholic mission. I presume that he wanted to offer his people a viable alternative to their own traditions. This marked the end of the Ghost Dances. ....
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