Engraving Depicting the Ghost Dance, 1890

Ghost Dances began with singing and increased in tempo and intensity until dancers fell into a trance and experienced the paradise that the religion prophesied.

Engraving Depicting the Ghost Dance 1890

The Ghost Dance religion preached peaceful, industrious living and required the performance of the Ghost Dance ceremony, which is depicted in this engraving.

National Archives, Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer