USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1869, Hawthorne Wodziwob, a Paiute man, organized a series of community dances to announce a vision. He spoke of a journey to the land of the dead and of promises made to him by the souls of the recently deceased. They promised to return to their loved ones within a period of three to four years.

Detailed explanation-2: -A late-nineteenth-century American Indian spiritual movement, the ghost dance began in Nevada in 1889 when a Paiute named Wovoka (also known as Jack Wilson) prophesied the extinction of white people and the return of the old-time life and superiority of the Indians.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Ghost Dance was a spiritual movement that arose among Western American Indians. It began among the Paiute in about 1869 with a series of visions of an elder, Wodziwob. These visions foresaw renewal of the Earth and help for the Paiute peoples as promised by their ancestors.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1889, Wovoka, a Paiute prophet, had a vision where he met God and was taught the Ghost Dance; a pacifist movement intended for Natives to be reunited upon a remade earth to live happily free from death, disease, and misery.