The main importance to US and tribal history was caused because mainly Euro Americans got confused and scared and reacted badly to this new religious movement that spread to many tribes. read more
John Slocum’s Squaxin Island tribe Salish movement that led to the Shaker Church was another. It still exists in the NW. So was Smohalla's Dreamer movement. It still exists too. And much earlier Handsome Lake’s Seneca movement starting in 1799. The Ghost Dance movement started with the Northern Paiute and the leader Wovoka (Jack Wilson). read more
The original Ghost Dance movement (1870) The original Ghost Dance began on the Walker Lake Reservation in Nevada, in 1870. It was initiated by Wodziwob (Gray Hair), a Northern Paiute Indian, as a result of his visionary experiences in the late 1860s. read more
The Ghost Dance (Caddo: Nanissáanah, also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) was a new religious movement incorporated into numerous American Indian belief systems. read more