WOVOKA

Meaning of WOVOKA in English

/weuh voh"keuh/ , n.

c1856-1932, Paiute religious leader: originator of the ghost dance religion.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

WOVOKA — born 1858?, Utah Territory, U.S. died October 1932, Walker River Indian Reservation, Nev. Paiute religious leader. In 1889 Wovoka announced …
Английский словарь Британика
WOVOKA — n. (c.1858-1932) Paiute medicine man who claimed to have received a divine message that one day all white people would …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
WOVOKA — born 1858?, Utah Territory died Oct. 1932, Walker River Indian Reservation, Nev. also called Jack Wilson American Indian religious leader …
Britannica English vocabulary
WOVOKA — n. born 1858?, Utah Territory, U.S. died October 1932, Walker River Indian Reservation, Nev. Paiute religious leader. In 1889 Wovoka …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
WOVOKA — [Native American] The Paiute prophet and originator of the Ghost Dance was declared the Red Man's Messiah. A prophet of …
Encyclopedia Mythica English vocab
WOVOKA — (1856?-1932) Вовока Шаман из племени южных пайютов [Paiute, Southern]. Пророк, создатель культа Пляски духа [Ghost Dance]. Сын знахаря, после смерти отца …
WOVOKA — (1856?-1932) Вовока Шаман из племени южных пайютов [Paiute, Southern]. Пророк, создатель культа Пляски духа [Ghost Dance]. Сын знахаря, после смерти …
PAIUTE — Either of two distinct American Indian groups living mostly in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, U.S. Their languages belong to …
Английский словарь Британика
GHOST DANCE — Nineteenth-century Native American cult. It represented an attempt by Indian peoples in the western U.S. to rehabilitate their traditional cultures. …
Английский словарь Британика
GHOST DANCE — () A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite …
Английский словарь Webster
GHOST DANCE — add. ·- a religious dance of the north american indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a …
Webster English vocab
WOUNDED KNEE — hamlet and creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, U.S. It was the site of two …
Britannica English vocabulary
GHOST DANCE — either of two distinct cults in a complex of late 19th-century religious movements that represented an attempt of Indians in …
Britannica English vocabulary
PAIUTE — n. Either of two distinct American Indian groups living mostly in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, U.S. Their languages belong …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
GHOST DANCE — Nineteenth-century Native American cult. It represented an attempt by Indian peoples in the western U.S. to rehabilitate their traditional cultures. …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
NATIVE AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY — All the articles available in the Native American mythology section of the Encyclopedia Mythica: A'akuluujjusi; A-gaskw; A-senee-ki-wakw; Abaangui; Ababinili; Abenaki …
Encyclopedia Mythica English vocab
WILSON, JACK — см Wovoka
PROPHET, THE — 1. Пророк Прозвище трех индейских религиозных мистиков, предвещавших возвращение могущества индейцев, если они откажутся от всего привнесенного в их жизнь белыми: делаварский …
GHOST DANCE — Пляска духа Обряд мессианского культа, распространенный в 70-90-е гг. XIX в. среди многих индейских племен на западе США; создан пророком Вовокой …
WILSON, JACK — см. Wovoka
PROPHET — (the Prophet) 1. Пророк Прозвище трех индейских религиозных мистиков, предвещавших возвращение могущества индейцев, если они откажутся от всего привнесенного в …

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