1889 Mason Valley in Nevada native Paiutes Mr. Jack Wilson the Prophet Wovoka was a respected holy man, in January during a solar eclipse Jack had a vision. Jack stood with god in heaven & saw his ancestors & his land filled with wildlife & food for his people. Jack was told to return to his people & teach them to love each other & not fight amongst themselves or with the settlers. God told Jack that in 2 year 1892 Jesus would return to Earth and his people must not steal & cause trouble also they must stop self harm while mourning their dead.

Jack informed his tribe that god had given him the power to control the weather. Jack Wilson thought his people to dance in a circle and all evil will go away and would be replaced with love and gods Faith. The dance was called the Spirit Dance OR Ghost Dance.

The Lakota tribe interpretation of The Ghost Dance drew from their traditional idea of a "renewed Earth" in which "all evil is washed away". This Lakota interpretation included the removal of all European Americans from their land They told the Indians they could dance a new world into being. There would be landslides, earthquakes, and big winds. Hills would pile up on each other. The earth would roll up like a carpet with all the white man's ugly things – the stinking new animals, sheep and pigs, the fences, the telegraph poles, the mines and factories. Underneath would be the wonderful old-new world as it had been before the white fat-takers came. The white men will be rolled up, disappear, go back to their own continent" LAME DEER

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Kicking Bear a first cousin of Crazy Horse went South to meet with Jack Wilson to learn about the Ghost Dance & In October 1890 Kicking Bear came to visit Standing Rock reservation to meet with Chief Sitting Bull & his people. Kicking Bear held a meeting with the Tribe at Standing Rock reservation in Northern Dakota and soke of what he learned from WOVOKA Jack Wilson to dance the ghost dance & the food and buffalo would return in the Spring - Do not cause trouble but dance in peace & all our dead relatives would return & the settlers would go back East. Sitting Bull knew his people were desperate , with little food & millions of acres of their land stolen, the Ghost Dance started all through November.