La Danse des Esprits au-delà de Wounded Knee: un épisode historique signifiant de l’expression du mineur et du tiers-espace

The Ghost Dance is a millenarian Indian movement which spread in 1889 and 1890 through the great plains of the United Sates and whose prophet, Wovoka, announced the advent of a new golden age of Indian nations. This protest is commonly remembered in relation with the 1890 Sioux rebellion and the Wounded Knee massacre, its apparent end. However, the Ghost Dance actually belongs to a continuum of Indian reactions to colonization and constitutes a significant event of the minor, defined by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Marked with hybridity, it served as the individual and collective expression of a suffering, of a desire to remember and resist, and of a resilience; it has remained an object or symbol among Indian artists. Acting as a third space, in Homi Bhabba’s terms, it was revived for cultural and political purposes by Red Power in the 1970s before eventually taking a universal turn.

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