They say that it has been over one hundred years since the great Ghost Dance was held in 1889. Wavoka, a Paiute medicine man led that Original Ghost Dance in the deserts of Nevada. Afterwards, there were apostles, Porcupine, of the Cheyenne along with Sitting Bull of the Arapaho people, who brought the word of the teachings of the Pale Prophet, Kanichi ta Kanichi wa. They told of a Pale Prophet that had appeared to the people present at the Ghost Dance. They brought his teachings to the other tribes that lived upon the Great Plains.
The last memory associated with the Ghost Dance that contemporary history leaves us with is the tragic occurrence of Wounded Knee; when a few days before Christmas, hundreds of Chief Big Foot, and some 350 people, mostly women old men and children, were on a pilgrimage. A peaceful journey to participate in a sacred ceremony they called the Ghost Dance. There they hoped to bring about peaceful change to a way of life that seemed to be vanishing before their eyes; were slaughtered. Among the dead was their leade, Big Foot. Needless to say, they never made it to the ceremony.
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