The 1870 Ghost Dance (Wodziwob)

Around 1869–70 the Northern Paiute prophet Wodziwob at Walker River, Nevada, taught that round dances would bring back the dead and renew the world. The movement spread into California.

1870 CE · 38.98, -118.75 · status: account

The account

It is the forerunner of Wovoka's better-known 1889 Ghost Dance from the same region, and fed into the Bole-Maru religion of central California.

Connections in the atlas

• Bole-Maru dream religion
• Wovoka's vision
• Ghost shirts and the Lakota Ghost Dance

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Ghost Dance