Wovoka (c. 1856 – September 20, 1932), [2] also known as Jack Wilson, was the Paiute religious leader who founded a second episode of the Ghost Dance movement. Wovoka means "cutter" [3] or "wood cutter" in the Northern Paiute language.

Wovoka (born 1858?, Utah Territory—died October 1932, Walker River Indian Reservation, Nevada) was a Native American religious leader who spawned the second messianic Ghost Dance cult, which spread rapidly through reservation communities about 1890.

A Paiute medicine-man, Wovoka originated the Ghost Dance, which spread throughout the Native American tribes of the west, causing white settlers and officials a great deal of consternation. Born southwest of what is now Carson City, Nevada, in about 1856, his father, Tavibo, was also a medicine man. After his father’s death, the boy was taken ...

2018年5月29日 · WOVOKA (c. 1856/8 – 1932), Paiute religious prophet and messiah of the Ghost Dance of 1890; also called Jack Wilson by white settlers.

Wovoka was a Numu seer, holy man and prophet of the 1890 Ghost Dance movement. Ghost Dance movements have occurred in history as a rallying point to preserve traditional Native American culture and as a form of resistance to U.S. policy and American culture.

Wovoka (c. 1856 - September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, was the Northern Paiute religious leader who founded the Ghost Dance movement. Wovoka means "cutter" or "wood cutter" in the Northern Paiute language. Wovoka was born in Smith Valley area southeast of Carson City, Nevada, around the year 1856.

Wovoka (c. 1856 - September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, was the Northern Paiute mystic who founded the Ghost Dance movement. Having spent part of his childhood with a family of white ranchers, Wovoka was well versed in both …

Wovoka, which means wood cutter in the Northern Paiute language, was consumed by the plight of his people and the disparity between them and their oppressors. He sought peace, the return of the buffalo, and the traditional Indian way of life without the white man.

Wovoka, or Quoitze Ow, was a Native American visionary prophet of the Paiute people, born sometime between 1856-63 in Smith Valley, Nevada. This was a time of white invasion, wars and skirmishes, and disruption of traditional food sources; these nomadic hunter-gatherers were reduced to manual labor for the invaders and trading with them for food.

Wovoka, a Northern Paiute man born near Walker Lake in Nevada, is best known as the founder of the Ghost Dance religion, which gained significant traction among Native American tribes in the late 19th century.