Ghost Dance

LA BARRE W., 1970, The Ghost Dance The Origins of Religion, Dell, New York, NY. 

Much of the subsequent history of peyote in the U.S. was influenced by three exceptional men who were active at the time of crisis among Indians, when they were being herded onto reservations. The Indians had lost their buffalo and all hope that their lands would be restored by the Ghost Dance. This was the time of the Wounded Knee massacre. 

I open myself up and asked to be purified, to be cleansed of all resistance. My teacher instructs me in the Ghost Dance. He simply says that when we are like this, we do the Ghost Dance. He instructs me to dance. 

Neutral thought destroyed, lost in a ghost s dance, the girl is sought, while wandering about, throughout this vast house. 

Clayton D (2008) Singing and dancing in the ghost crab Ocypode platytarsus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae). J Nat Hist 42 141-155... 

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