Ghost shirt

The religion was founded by Wovoka (Jack Wilson), a Northern Paiute Native American, in the late 19th century and quickly spread throughout the Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin and Plains tribes.

Ghost shirts, sacred to certain factions of Lakota people, were thought to guard against bullets through spiritual power.

However, two Lakota warriors and followers of Wovoka, Kicking Bear and Short Bull, thought otherwise, and believed that Ghost shirts would protect the wearer enough to actively resist U.S. military aggression.

[2] In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Player Piano, a faction revolting against the rigidly hierarchical, mechanized United States of the future calls itself the Ghost Shirt Society.

The founders claim that, like the militant Native Americans of the late 19th century, they are "mak[ing] one last fight for the old values".