Parker, description of a Ghost Dance observed on White Clay creek ... After resting for a time they would go through the same performance, perhaps three times a day. They practiced fasting ...

The Ghost Dance movement was started in the 1890's by Wovoka, a Paiute man. The messiah's message declared that there would come a time when the earth would be destroyed, and a new world would be ...

[James Mooney, an ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, was sent to investigate the Ghost Dance movement in 1891. He obtained a copy of Wovoka's message from a Cheyenne named Black ...