Natane (Daughter of the Ghost Dance)

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Natane
by Kirby Sattler

By the late 1880s many Indian tribes, desperate and facing an existence of poverty, hunger and disease sought a means of salvation to revitalize their traditional culture.  The evolution of a new religion, the Ghost Dance, was a reaction to the Indians being forced to submit to government authority and reservation life. The Ghost Dance promised an apocalypse, the earth would be destroyed; white people would be obliterated, buried under the new soil of the spring that would cover the land and restore the prairie. The buffalo and antelope would return, deceased ancestors would rise and Indians would be the inheritors of the new earth.
native american feathers painted dress