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How does the event or topic connect to the conflict over the DAPL today? Be specific here. Consider direct connections as well as parallels and themes. 

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How does the event or topic connect to the conflict over the DAPL today? Be specific here. Consider direct connections as well as parallels and themes. 

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The BIA, who promoted Christianity, banned the religion without the knowledge that the Ghost Dance stemmed from Christianity. Similar to the Dakota pipeline controversy, the Standing rock Sioux tribe practices the Ghost dance religion. The land that is being taken away from them has historical and religious importance and similar to 1889, the natives rights’ are being taken away.

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How did people who were not American Indians respond to the event?  What was the public reaction? 

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How did people who were not American Indians respond to the event?  What was the public reaction? 

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White settlers reacted differently to the new religion. Some traveled to the reservations to observe the dancing, others feared the possibility of an Indian uprising.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) eventually banned the Ghost Dance, because the government believed it was a precursor to renewed Native American militancy and violent rebellion.

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Why was this movement/event significant? 

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Why was this movement/event significant? 

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The religion required frequent ceremonial cleansing, meditation, prayer, chanting and of course dancing the Ghost Dance. Each ceremony lasted for five successive days. The participants danced each night, on the last night the dance continued until morning. The ceremony was to be repeated every six weeks. Within a year, the new religion spread throughout the Native camps in the West, giving Native people the much-needed hope.

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What was (or still is) at stake for Native Americans that led to this movement/event?

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What was (or still is) at stake for Native Americans that led to this movement/event?

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The freedom of religion. Natives were brutally abused because of their practice of the ghost dance and they are still not receiving respect despite their protests.

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What year or years are associated with this movement or event?

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What year or years are associated with this movement or event?

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The Ghost Dance originated among the Paiute Indians around 1870. However, the tide of the movement came in 1889 with a Paiute shaman Wovoka (Jack Wilson). Wovoka had a vision during a sun eclipse in 1889.