In order to hasten those auspicious events, Indians were instructed to perform certain round dances at night. Wodziwob’s vision predicted that tribal Indian life would soon return, that the dead would come back to life, and that animals Indians had traditionally hunted (notably the buffalo) would be restored. Indians had been moved involuntarily from place to place many lost their traditional lands and suffered from starvation and disease. By 1870 Indian fortunes were at a low ebb in the wake of the Civil War the United States had concentrated on controlling Indian life and assimilating Indian people into the larger culture. Wodziwob told of having gone, in trance, to another world where he was informed that an Indian renaissance was at hand. It was initiated by Wodziwob (“Gray Hair”), a Northern Paiute Indian, as a result of visionary experiences he had in the late 1860s. The original Ghost Dance appeared on the Walker Lake Reservation in Nevada in 1870. military forces at Wounded Knee Creek, however in the process of disarming the Lakota armies, US Army strafed the camp with gunfire killing hundreds of Lakota.ġ891 The massacre at Wounded Knee ended the widespread nature of the Ghost Dance movement although it continued in isolated places in the U.S. US officers ordered the arrest of Big Foot, a Lakota chief.ġ890 (December 28) Big Foot surrendered to U.S. Army officers tried to arrest Sitting Bull, a Lakota Shaman and supporter of the Ghost Dance, resulting in a gun battle which killed Sitting Bull. authorities became fearful of the movement’s rapid spread and officials tried to outlaw the practice.ġ890 (Mid-December) U.S. The movement soon spread to other tribes and was practiced in CA and OR.ġ870s The Ghost Dancers became disillusioned with the movement and the majority of movement disbanded although some offshoots such as Earth Lodge and Big Head continued to thrive.ġ889 The second and more prominent phase of Ghost Dance was founded by Wovoka in NV and soon spread to other tribes.ġ890 U.S. 1856 Wovoka, a Paiute Indian, was born in western Nevada.ġ870 The early phase of Ghost Dance was initiated in NV by Wodziwob, a Northern Paiute Indian.
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