Ghost dancing in the dark

Ghost dancing in the dark

As the “Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue” unfolds, I’ve been thinking about the Ghost Dance Movement of the late-1800s. If you’re not familiar, according to Wikipedia the Ghost Dance was “a religious movement among indigenous peoples of North America, based on the performance of a ritual dance which, it was believed, would drive away white people and restore their traditional lands and way of life.” In their despair, Native nations — confined to…