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 ...
Nov. 21. -- Accompanied by Buckskin Jack Russell, the scout; Major Burke, and a half breed named Half Eyes, a TIMES reporter has witnessed one of the famous ghost dances of the Sioux. Mounted on ...
It was part of a larger effort by the U.S. government to repress Native American tribes of the Great Plains and eradicate a ...