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ID: 500490084
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500490084

 

Record Type: Person
Wovoka (Numu religious leader, ca.1856-1932)

Note: Numu (Northern Paiute) spiritual leader, creator of the Ghost Dance movement popular amongst Native American communities in the late 19th century. Wovoka was a name assigned later in life, meaning woodcutter in Northern Paiute.
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Names:
Wovoka (preferred,V,index,Paiute,NA,U)
Quoitze Ow (VBN,Paiute,NA,U)
Quoitze Owalso (VBN,Paiute,NA,U)
Jack Wilson (V)

Nationalities:
Northern Paiute (preferred)
Native American

Roles:
religious leader (preferred)
prophet

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Carson City (Carson City Indep. City, Nevada, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  Yerington (Lyon county, Nevada, United States) (inhabited place)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Non-Artists
 ........  Wovoka (I)

Biographies:
(Numu religious leader, ca.1856-1932) ..... [VP Preferred]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Jack Wilson ........ [VP]
........................  University of Michigan Library [online] (2018) "Jack Wilson," accessed 29 May 2020, "Wovoka,"
Quoitze Ow ........ [VP]
......................  University of Michigan Library [online] (2018) "Quiotze Ow," accessed 29 May 2020, "Wovoka,"
Quoitze Owalso ........ [VP]
..............................  Library of Congress, American Folklife Center [online] (2020-) "Quoitze Owalso," accessed 29 May 2020, "James Mooney Recordings of American Indian Ghost Dance Songs, 1894,"
Wovoka ........ [VP Preferred]
...............  Library of Congress, American Folklife Center [online] (2020-) "Wovoka," accessed 29 May 2020, "James Mooney Recordings of American Indian Ghost Dance Songs, 1894,"

Subject: ........ [VP]
....................  Library of Congress, American Folklife Center [online] (2020-) accessed 29 May 2020, "James Mooney Recordings of American Indian Ghost Dance Songs, 1894,"
....................  University of Michigan Library [online] (2018) accessed 29 May 2020, "Wovoka,"
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Library of Congress, American Folklife Center [online] (2020-) accessed 29 May 2020, "James Mooney Recordings of American Indian Ghost Dance Songs, 1894,"
.......... University of Michigan Library [online] (2018) accessed 29 May 2020, "Wovoka,"
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