From Technobarbarian@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 11 18:36:31 2023
I just finished reading the biography of an Indian woman who grew up on the reservation at Yachats Oregon. Ghost dancing has never gone completely away. After the reservation was closed she was living in the Coos Bay area again. Back in the day, late
in the 1800s, there were all sort of dances. There were two Indians #45 would have been proud of. They had learned the latest version of the Ghost dance in Northern CA. They convinced the Indians living around Coos Bay to build a dance hall for their
Ghost dances and were treated like rock stars. They were having 3 dances a week and charged 50 cents for their dances. They told people terrible things would happen to them if they didn't participate. When the money stopped coming in they moved somewhere
else. When they split up one guy took the White man's money and the other guy took the Indian money.
Eventually the Ghost dancers were swallowed up by the Shaker movement, which is still popular in odd corners of the Indian community. The Shakers were looking for the second coming of Christ. They were a good fit for the messianic Indians.