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This movement began with a revelation that a Paiute known as Wovoka (also known as Jack Wilson) had during a solar eclipse. Central to the Ghost Dance religion was the Ghost Dance itself, dancing in a circular pattern, which induced religious ecstasy and the use of hallucinogenic peyote cactus. The ghost dance was an attempt to bring about renewal of native society and decline in the influence of the white man. Believers in the Ghost Dance ritual were convinced that performing the Ghost Dance would eventually reunite them with their ancestors coming by railway from the spirit world. Meanwhile, the world would return to a primordial state of natural beauty, opening up to swallow up all other people, while the performers of the Ghost Dance floatedLevitation is the process by which an object is suspended against gravity, in a stable position, by a force without physical contact. This can be achieved through jets of gas pushing upwards against the object (as in air hockey), or pushing downwards from in safety above with their ancestors and friends.

Though originally nonviolent in nature, the movement ultimately attracted militant elements who favored armed conflict as a means to fight the whites. Ultimately, the Ghost Dance inspired hysteria among white settlerSettlers are people who have travelled of their own choice, from the land of their birth to live in "new" lands or colonies. In modern history, the word "settlers" is synonymous with terms like pioneers, colonists, or (as British people once called them)s and resulted in the wholesale massacre of Native Americans at Wounded Knee.

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• Ghost DanceThe Ghost Dance also known as the Ghost Dance of 1890 was a millennialistic religious movement among Native Americans that began in the 1880s in the southwestern United States, as many Indian tribes had been forcibly relocated and integrated there. It end and gamblingGambling (or betting is any behaviour involving the risk of money or valuables on the outcome of a game, contest, or other event in which the outcome of that activity is partially or totally dependent upon chance. Though for many it is a form of recreatio song from the Paiute and Arapaho1806 1870 The Arapaho (in French: Gens de Vache tribe of Native Americans historically lived on the eastern plains of Colorado and Wyoming. They were close allies of the Cheyenne tribe and loosely aligned with the Sioux. Together with the Cheyenne they bu Native Americans from the Library of Congress' Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry Collection; performed by James Mooney (possibly along with Charles Mooney; neither are believed to be Native Americans) on July 5, 1894