[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 ...

They practiced fasting, and every morning those who joined in the dance were obliged to immerse themselves in the creek. (Comr., 44.) [TEXT: James Mooney, The Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux ...

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 ...