The new international encyclopaedia . are. He\\as probably a pupil of Wynants, Consult:Wurzbach, in Dohme, Kunst und KiinstlcrDcutselilandfi und drr yicdcrlande (Leipzig,1878) ; and Kammerer, Veher die Composition inWovwcrmans Gemiilden (il>,, 1879). ?WOVOKA (Cutter). or Jack Wilson(—), .\ Piute Indian prophet of Nevada,tlie originator of the Messiah or Ghost Dancereligion, born in Mason Valley, west of WalkerLiike, Nevada. On his fatliers death, abotit1870, the boy was taken into the family of DavidWilson, a white ranchman from whom he gotthe name by w-hich he is conunonly known amo
The new international encyclopaedia . are. He\\as probably a pupil of Wynants, Consult:Wurzbach, in Dohme, Kunst und KiinstlcrDcutselilandfi und drr yicdcrlande (Leipzig,1878) ; and Kammerer, Veher die Composition inWovwcrmans Gemiilden (il>,, 1879). ?WOVOKA (Cutter). or Jack Wilson(—), .\ Piute Indian prophet of Nevada,tlie originator of the Messiah or Ghost Dancereligion, born in Mason Valley, west of WalkerLiike, Nevada. On his fatliers death, abotit1870, the boy was taken into the family of DavidWilson, a white ranchman from whom he gotthe name by w-hich he is conunonly known amongthe whites. In the war of lSSS-89 lie was strickenwith a severe fever dining which the Pivite w<retlirown into great excitement by an eclipse of tliesun, Wovoka fell into delirium culminating in atrance, during which he thought he saw the Godof the Indians and all the Indians who had diedengaged in their old-time sports and occuiiations,as before the white man came. He was given arevelation and a dance which he was commamled. z< (T. -LU O li O 5 WOVOKA. 603 WKASSE. to comnninicato to his people, witli tlio promisethat by strictly observiiij, the doctrines and cere-monial tliey would be enaliled to rejoin theirdeparted friemls in a now Indian earth whichwas rapidly approacliing from the west, stockedwith game and everything of tlie old Indian life,and which would slide ov<r the present earth,driving the whites before it to the land l)cyond tliewater from which they had originally- come. Inthe same comicction he was to preach the brother-hood of the Indian race, and tlie abolition oftril)al warfare, the war dance and all that savoredof war; to forbid laceration, destruction of prop-erty, and excessive grief at funerals, and to per-mit the equality of women in ceremonial his return from the s])irit world he at oncebegan to preach the new dottrine. which, in spiteof its proliibition of their cherished war andfuneral customs. a])pealcd strongly to tlie Indian
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