USA CITIZENSHIP TEST
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was a sacred dance used by the natives
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was a sacred dance
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used to summon the natives dead ancestors to remove the white settlers
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -noun. : a group dance of a late 19th century American Indian messianic cult believed to promote the return of the dead and the restoration of traditional ways of life.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Ghost Dance was associated with Wovoka’s prophecy of an end to colonial 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.