medicine dance

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noun

a ritual dance performed by some North American Indians to invoke supernatural assistance as for driving out disease.

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Origin of medicine dance

First recorded in 1800–10

Words nearby medicine dance

medicine ball, Medicine Bow Range, Medicine Bow River, medicine bundle, medicine chest, medicine dance, medicine dropper, Medicine Hat, medicine lodge, medicine man, medicine shop

How to use medicine dance in a sentence

Then we danced the medicine dance; and Kasiascall went alone to the country of the Chinooks, to the fort of the Boston men.
The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems|Frances Fuller Victor
The tune they sung to the Medicine-dance of the Loucheux, struck me as being soft and pretty.
Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea|John Franklin
After a medicine dance, according to Indian custom, they proposed a feast, but there was nothing on which to feast.
Fifty Years In The Northwest|William Henry Carman Folsom
After two days the Indian doctors held a medicine dance for her benefit.
Fifty Years In The Northwest|William Henry Carman Folsom

It may be the boys medicine dance, part of the ritual which will keep harm away from him.
Boy Scouts in Glacier Park|Walter Prichard Eaton