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-Religion founded in 1889 by Paiute shaman Wovoka that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Indian religion and served as a nonviolent form of resistance for Indians in the late nineteenth century. The practice frightened whites and was violently suppressed.
A)Battle of the Little Big Horn
B)Black Hills
C)Carlisle Indian School
D)Chinese Exclusion Act
E)Comanchería
F)Comstock Lode
G)Dawes Allotment Act
H)first transcontinental railroad
I)Ghost Dance
J)Homestead Act of 1862
K)reservations
L)Wounded Knee

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The term refers to the Ghost Dance movement that was founded by Paiute shaman Wovoka and combined elements of Christianity and traditional Indian religion. It was seen as a form of nonviolent resistance by indigenous peoples in the late nineteenth century, but it frightened white settlers and was violently suppressed.

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