The Ghost Dance movement was started in the 1890's by Wovoka, a Paiute man. The messiah's message declared that there would come a time when the earth would be destroyed, and a new world would be ...

The Native American Ghost Dance movement arose in the late 1800’s and featured large circle dances as well as teachings that became a part of American Indian belief systems. The movement was ...

Host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Louis S. Warren about his book Gods Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America, which describes the pan-Indian religious movement that swept ...

TOM FARRINGTON, The Ghost Dance and the Politics of Exclusion in Sherman Alexie's "Distances.", Journal of American Studies, Vol. 47, No. 2, Special Collection: Art Across Frontiers (May 2013), pp.