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medicine dance

noun

  1. a ritual dance performed by some North American Indians to invoke supernatural assistance as for driving out disease.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of medicine dance1

First recorded in 1800–10
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The jingle dress dance originated with the Ojibwe tribe - whose members first settled in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and Ontario - as a medicine dance of prayer and healing.

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It might be a Medicine Dance, or a Green Corn Dance, or some other festivity peculiar to the notions of the tribes and the exigencies of the occasion.

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The Kiowas, Comanches, Arappahoes, Apaches, and Chyennes presented themselves on the day appointed, and initiated the proceedings with a Medicine Dance.

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It may be the boy’s medicine dance, part of the ritual which will keep harm away from him.”

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One of the wonderful things done by this man was at a medicine dance.

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