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Wovoka (c. 1856 - September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, was the Northern Paiute religious leader who founded the Ghost Dance movement. Wovoka means "cutter" or "wood cutter" in the Northern Paiute language.
Wovoka was born in Smith Valley area southeast of Carson City, Nevada, around the year 1856. Quoitze Ow was his birth name. Wovoka's father was Numu-tibo'o (sometimes called Tavibo), who for several decades was incorrectly believed to be Wodziwob, a religious leader who had founded the Ghost Dance of 1870. From the age of eight until almost thirty he often worked for David Wilson, a rancher in the Yerington, Nevada area, and his wife Abigail, who gave him the name Jack Wilson when dealing with European Americans. David Wilson was a devout Christian, and Wovoka learned Christian theology and Bible stories while living with him.
One of his chief sources of authority among Paiutes was his alleged ability to control the weather. He was said to have caused a block of ice to fall out of the sky on a summer day, to be able to end drought with rain or snow, to light his pipe with the sun, and to form icicles in his hands.
Actors: Dick Wolf (producer), Gordon Tootoosis (actor), Wes Studi (actor), Fred Dalton Thompson (actor), J.K. Simmons (actor), Anna Paquin (actress), August Schellenberg (actor), Shaun Johnston (actor), Colm Feore (actor), Aidan Quinn (actor), Adam Beach (actor), Hrothgar Mathews (actor), Wes Studi (actor), Michael Brown (editor), George S. Clinton (composer),
Plot: Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee intertwines the perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman, né Ohiyesa, a young, Dartmouth-educated, Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation; Sitting Bull, the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land - the gold-laden Black Hills of the Dakotas; and Senator Henry Dawes, who was one of the architects of the government policy on Indian affairs. While Eastman and patrician schoolteacher Elaine Goodale work to improve life for the Indians on the reservation, Senator Dawes lobbies President Grant for more humane treatment, opposing the bellicose stance of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Hope rises for the Indians in the form of the prophet Wovoka and the Ghost Dance - a messianic movement that promises an end of their suffering under the white man. This hope is obliterated after the assassination of Sitting Bull and the massacre of hundreds of Indian men, women and children by the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek on Dec. 29, 1890.
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Plot: Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, american-indian, based-on-true-story, civil-rights, indian-rights, injustice, lakota-tribe, massacre, native-americanActors: Daniel B. Ullman (miscellaneous crew), Lesley Selander (director), Les Millbrook (editor), Noah Beery Jr. (actor), Robert Bray (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Tim Holt (actor), Tom Keene (actor), Richard Martin (actor), Herman Nowlin (actor), Bud Osborne (actor), Lee 'Lasses' White (actor), Billy Wilkerson (actor), Harry Woods (actor), Herman Schlom (producer),
Plot: Freighter Carter is cheating the Indians out of their food supply. Dave and Chito become involved when Turquoise leaves her baby at their ranch due to lack of food. When Carter wounds Red Fox and then later kills his partner Hutchins, Dave is accused both times. Escaping the law, Dave is now on to Carter's game and sets out to get him.
Keywords: corruption, murder, native-americanThe Ghost Dance appeared during a time of desperation for the Native American Indian people. The Ghost Dance started when Paiute shaman Jack Wilson or Wovoka had a vision that if our people would dance and sing we Indians would live again. The Ghost Dance spread throughout the land. In Dec. 1890 the military panicked and massacred innocent Lakota Indian people at Wound Knee while they danced. It is one of the worse incidents in United States history. Judy Trejo - Summit Lake (Tommo Agi) and Walker River (Agi) Paiute and Anita Collins - Shoshone and Walker River Paiute speak about Wovoka. The Round Dance was a traditional Great Basin dance that spread across the land in the form of the Ghost Dance, and is now part of many celebrations. Robbie Robertson sings "Ghost Dance".
Round-dance precursors The physical form of the ritual associated with the Ghost Dance religion did not originate with Jack Wilson (Wovoka), nor did it die with him. Referred to as the "round dance," this ritual form characteristically includes a circular community dance held around an individual who leads the ceremony. Often accompanying the ritual are intermissions of trance, exhortations, and prophesying.
"Wovoka and the ghost dance" Lyric: In the moon of the fallen leaves (Wovoka) Appeared one day He had come of the land of spirit With the message of prophecy The flood will come and save you Next spring when the good times come From the lake of the pyramids (Wovoka) Was here to say Our people must dance Keep on dancing, keep on dancing Our people must sing Keep on singing, keep on singing for the good times to come Gin, Ricky, Ginny Ricky Gin, Gin, Gin On the third day a fire let your spirit be suspended (Wovoka) Said Little Kid From the park of the iron horse they saw (Wovoka) To the dance of the ghost and say Our people must dance Keep on dancing, keep on dancing Our people must sing Keep on singing, keep on singing for the good times to come Gin, Ri...
otwARTa scena Warszawa 02.02.2014 WOVOKA "Black Ghost" wokal Mewa Chabiera gitara Raphael Rogiński perkusja Paweł Szpura organy Ola Rzepka Realizacja: Robert Tyska Leszek Biolik zdjęcia: Dominik Danilczyk kamera: Robert Tyska, Miguel Nieto nagranie: Andrzej Rajski montaż: Robert Tyska korekcja barwna: Michał Kowalski mix: Marcin Gajko podziękowania: RIO de POST, TAKTO Artur Królicki, Leszek Polanowski, Piotr Sosinowicz,
otwARTa scena Warszawa 02.02.2014 WOVOKA "Like To Suffer" wokal Mewa Chabiera gitara Raphael Rogiński perkusja Paweł Szpura organy Ola Rzepka Realizacja: Robert Tyska Leszek Biolik zdjęcia: Dominik Danilczyk kamera: Robert Tyska, Miguel Nieto nagranie: Andrzej Rajski montaż: Robert Tyska korekcja barwna: Michał Kowalski mix: Marcin Gajko podziękowania: RIO de POST, TAKTO Artur Królicki, Leszek Polanowski, Piotr Sosinowicz,
Shiloah Bender, direct descendant of Wovoka, speaks about Paiute Indian medicine man Wovoka, creator of the Ghost Dance. Wovoka was one of the most famous Native American shamans. Wovoka had family ties in California and Nevada in Paiute areas of Coleville, Mono Lake, Bridgeport, Bishop, Yerington, Walker River and Smith Valley.
Frieda Dick-Brown, a descendent of the famous Paiute Indian shaman Wovoka, says a prayer in the Paiute language. Wovoka was the creator of the Ghost Dance. Frieda is also a descendant of Mono Lake - Yosemite area Paiutes and the Washoe tribe of Coleville, California, besides Wovoka.
In the moon of the fallen leaves (Wovoka)
Appeared one day
He had come of the land of spirit
With the message of prophecy
The flood will come and save you
Next spring when the good times come
From the lake of the pyramids (Wovoka)
Was here to say
Our people must dance
Keep on dancing, keep on dancing
Our people must sing
Keep on singing, keep on singing for the good times to
come
Gin, Ricky, Ginny Ricky
Gin, Gin, Gin
On the third day a fire let your spirit be suspended
(Wovoka)
Said Little Kid
From the park of the iron horse they saw (Wovoka)
To the dance of the ghost and say
Our people must dance
Keep on dancing, keep on dancing
Our people must sing
Keep on singing, keep on singing for the good times to
come
Gin, Ricky, Ginny Ricky
Gin, Gin, Gin
His power is legend and his teaching's true (Wovoka)
The red and the seads
The beauty of his wisdome is an Indian song (Wovoka)
The property
Our people must dance
Keep on dancing, keep on dancing
Our people must sing
Keep on singing, keep on singing for the good times to
come
Our people must dance
Keep on dancing, keep on dancing
Our people must sing
Keep on singing, keep on singing for the good times to
come
Our people must dance
Keep on dancing, keep on dancing
Our people must sing
Keep on singing, keep on singing for the good times to