The Ghost Dance Religion In Saskatchewan, Canada

Abstract

The Ghost Dance religion taught by the Paiute Jack Wilson (Wovoka) was carried to Saskatchewan at the beginning of this century. Its most successful pro se lytizer was an Assiniboine who inspired the most northern Dakota Sioux commun ity in the province to become a congre gation. Surviving members of this con gregation profess a creed that closely follows Wilson's later teachings, record ed by Mooney, but that differs signifi cantly from the more militant versions Mooney heard from some United States Dakota. The Saskatchewan creed appears to have been a viable accommodation to early reservation-period conditions.