In 1889, the Ghost Dance movement spread among a number of Native American nations across the Western United States. Originating as far back as 1869 with the Northern Paiute, the Ghost (or Spirit) ...

[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 ...

It was part of a larger effort by the U.S. government to repress Native American tribes of the Great Plains and eradicate a ...