(206)   Tue 25 Nov 97  4:13
By: Curtis Johnson
To: Rena Mcgee
Re: 20 Questions + A
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 RM> Just a curious thought on my part, but did the native people
 RM> in Australia ever have anything like the native american
 RM> "Ghost Dance" ? (I don't have any info on this movement,
 RM> but from what I remember, it involved and attempt to use "white
 RM> medicine" against the *white man*)

    There's a *lot* of information about it, since it
 happened at a time when it could be well documented. All the
 below is from my memory.
    The originator was Pavoloki (sp?) an Indian in Nevada,
 who had his "revelation" during an eclipse.  As the Plains
 Indians understood it, anyway, Jesus got pissed off with the
 white man the same way he got pissed off with the Jews, and
 offered his salvation to the Amerinds.  If the Amerinds united,
 and foreswore firewater and led pure lives, and did the Ghost
 Dance, eventually Jesus would cause an earthquake that would
 destory all white men and the buffalo would come back.
    It was such a Ghost Dance gathering ca. 1890 that was
 misinterpreted as an incipient uprising at Wounded Knee, and
 led to the famous massacre.

    The song "Buffalo Gal, Won't You Come Out Tonight" was
 a derisory song by whites about this.





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