Wovoka
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Wovoka ( – September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, was the Paiute religious leader who founded a second episode of the Ghost Dance movement. Wovoka means "cutter" or "wood cutter" in the Northern Paiute language.
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It sits within the topics 1850s births, 1932 deaths and 19th-century apocalypticists.
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Person · Open Library
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- Declaration of Independence
- Divine Speech
- Spiritural Reconstruction
- African Centeredness
- Dabbling in Politics ( a Call to Consciousness)
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There is more than one artist with this name: 1. Doom/Sludge/Post-Metal band from Los Angeles, California. Bandcamp 2. Wovoka is the psych folk vehicle for one John Tar, by all accounts a splendid fellow making wonderful music. If one can judge another by the company he keeps, judgment falls glowingly on Mr. Tar -- he's played with or supported Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Sir Richard Bishop, Jack Rose, Comets on Fire, and Howlin' Rain. 3. A Polish band that plays roots music, a bit of psyched
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Key facts
- American Indian chief.name
- Wovoka
- American Indian chief.image
- Wovoka Paiute Shaman.jpg
- American Indian chief.caption
- Wovoka – Paiute spiritual leader and creator of the Ghost Dance
- American Indian chief.tribe
- Northern Paiute
- American Indian chief.birth_name
- Quoitze Ow
- American Indian chief.birth_date
- c. 1856
- American Indian chief.birth_place
- Smith Valley, Nevada
- American Indian chief.death_place
- Yerington, Nevada
- American Indian chief.nicknames
- Jack Wilson
- American Indian chief.known_for
- Spiritual leader and creator of the Ghost Dance
- American Indian chief.resting_place
- Schurz, Nevada
- American Indian chief.parents
- Numu-tibo'o (sometimes called Tavibo; father)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Smith Valley
- Place of death
- Yerington
- Religion
- shamanism
- Image
- Wovoka Paiute Shaman.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1856-01-01
- date of death
- 1932-09-20
- name in native language
- Wovoka
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Biography
- Post-Wounded Knee life and death
- In popular culture
- See also
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Wovoka ( – September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, was the Paiute religious leader who founded a second episode of the Ghost Dance movement. Wovoka means "cutter" or "wood cutter" in the Northern Paiute language.
==Biography== Wovoka was born in the Smith Valley area southeast of Carson City, Nevada around 1856. Quoitze Ow was his birth name. Wovoka's father was Numu-tibo'o (sometimes called Tavibo), who for several decades was incorrectly believed to be Wodziwob, a religious leader who had founded the Ghost Dance of 1870. From the age of eight until almost thirty Wovoka often worked for David Wilson, a rancher in the Yerington, Nevada, area, and his wife Abigail, who gave him the name Jack Wilson when dealing with Euro-Americans. David Wilson was a devout Christian, and Wovoka learned Christian theology and Bible stories while living with him.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wovoka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.