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Originally published in Millennialism: An International Bibliography by Garland Publishing New York, 1992. Reproduced here by permission.

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        343. Hill, W.W. "The Navaho Indians and the Ghost Dance of 1890." In Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach edited by William A. Lessa and Egon Z. Vogt. Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson, 1958. Reprinted from American Anthropologist 46, 1944.

        The Navajo did not accept the Ghost Dance. This may be because they experienced little deprivation [at least as compared to other groups that did take up the Ghost Dance?], but it must also be acknowledged that their culture deeply and pervasively feared the dead. Thus they logically would not accept a practice that promised to revive them.

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