Prophet

== Native Americans ==
{{See also|Baháʼí Faith and Native Americans}}
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The [[Great Peacemaker]] (sometimes referred to as ''Deganawida'' or ''Dekanawida'') co-founded the [[Iroquois#Iroquois Confederacy|Haudenosaunee league]] in [[pre-Columbian]] times. In retrospect, his [[Great Peacemaker#Prophecy of the boy seer|prophecy of the boy seer]] could appear to refer to the conflict between natives and Europeans (white serpent).

From 1805 until the [[Battle of Tippecanoe]] that falsified his predictions in 1811, the "[[Shawnee]] prophet" [[Tenskwatawa]] led an Indian alliance to stop Europeans from taking more and more land going west. He reported [[vision (spirituality)|vision]]s he had. He is said to have accurately predicted a [[solar eclipse]]. His brother [[Tecumseh]] re-established the alliance for [[Tecumseh's War]], that ended with the latter's death in 1813. Tecumseh fought together with British forces that, in the area of the [[Great Lakes]], occupied essentially today's territory of [[Canada]].

[[Josiah Francis (Hillis Hadjo)|Francis the Prophet]], influenced by Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, was a leader of the [[Red Stick]] faction of the [[Muscogee|Creek]] Indians. He traveled to England in 1815 as a representative of the "four Indian nations" in an unsuccessful attempt to get Great Britain to help them resist the expansionism of the white settlers.

20 years later (1832), [[Wabokieshiek]], the "[[Ho-Chunk|Winnebago]] Prophet", after whom [[Prophetstown, Illinois|Prophetstown]] has been named, (also called "White Cloud") said that British forces would support the Indians in the [[Black Hawk War]] against the United States as 20 years earlier (based on "visions"). They did not, and he was no longer considered a "prophet".

In 1869, the [[Northern Paiute|Paiute]] [[Wodziwob]] founded the [[Ghost Dance]] movement. The dance rituals were an occasion to announce his visions of an earthquake that would swallow the whites. He seems to have died in 1872.

The [[Northern Paiute]] [[Wovoka]] said he had a vision during the [[solar eclipse]] of January 1, 1889, that the Paiute dead would come back and the whites would vanish from America, provided the natives performed [[Ghost Dance]]s. This idea spread among other Native American peoples. The government were worried about a rebellion and sent troops, which lead to the death of [[Sitting Bull]] and to the [[Wounded Knee massacre]] in 1890.