Native American Ghost Dancers in a large circle

Native American Ghost Dancers in a large circle, holding hands, c. 1890. The dancers shuffled in a circle, singing Ghost Dance songs for hours, which evoked the return of dead relatives, and their world before the White man came. Holding hands not a feature of traditional Indian circle dances. Reproduction of a painting by Mary Irvin Wright, from James Mooney photograph (BSLOC_2017_18_6)

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