| 词汇 | ghost dance |
| 词源 | ghost dance. An Indian ceremonial religious dance. Writes Grand Forman in The Last Trek of the Indians (1946): “The Ghost dance was a ceremonial religious dance connected with the Messiah doctrine which originated among the Pav- iotso in Nevada in 1888 and spread rapidly among other tribes until it numbered among its adherents nearly all the Indians of the interior basin from the Missouri River to be- yond the Rockies.” |
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