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Wo⋅vo⋅ka

  [wuh-voh-kuh]
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–noun
c1856–1932, Paiute religious leader: originator of the ghost dance religion.
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Wo·vo·ka   (wō-vō'kə)   
Paiute religious leader who founded the Ghost Dance movement. The movement faded when a number of its followers, thought to have supernatural protection, were massacred at Wounded Knee (1890).
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