Kavanagh located 78 ghost Dance Images. which were all taken among the Southern Arapho of Oklahoma . Mooney arrived in Indian territory in December 1890 ; By the time he was in Darlington Agency Headquarters of the Cheyennes and Arapahos  towards the end of the month,  " The ground was covered deeply in snow, which stopped the dancing for several weeks." The rehearsals were held in the tipi of Black Coyote almost every night until all the snow melted . Then " When all the snow melted, the dancers were renewed." Mooney wrote the Henry Henshaw on January 27, a tuesday and said" Sunday{ i.e. two days previous the 25th} [I] counted at one time 139 dancers, besides outside spectators with 26 others inside the circle . some in a manic frenzy, some in spasms , and others  stretched out on the ground stiff an unconcious." (Monney to Hnshaw, 27 Jan 1891).

     Tavibo, used his fathers teachings and his own vision during an eclipse of the sun. He began to spread "gospel" that had come to be known as the ghost dance religion. Tavibo told people that hte earth would soon perish and hten come alive again in a pure, abdoriginal state. for them to earn this new raku=ity they had to live harmoniously, and honestly , cleanse themselves very often, and also shun the way the white did, especially alcohol, the destroyer. Wovoka discouraged the practice of mourning, because the dead would soon be resurrected, demanding instead the performance prayers, meditation, chanting, and especiallly dancing through which might briefly die and catch a glimpse of the paradise to come.

     Three hundred tents were placed in a circle, with a tree in the center. It was covered with strips of various colors like eagle feathers, stuffed birds, claws, and horns all offerings to the Great Spirit. Their shirts for the men was made of the same material shirts and legging painted in red. Some of the legging were painted in strips running up and down and some others running around the necks, and the whole garmet was fantastically sprinkled with figures of birds, bows and arrows, sun and stars, and  everything they saw in nature. On the outside of the sleeve was rows of feathers tied up the quill ends and left to fly in the breeze, and also a ring around the neck and up and down the outside of the leggings. After the master spoke for fifteen minutes three of four hundred people arose. One  of them stood directly beside another each with their hand on their neighbors shoulder. After they walked about 5 times chanting "Father , I come," they stopped marching. But they remained in the circle and set up the most fearful, heart- piercing ails I ever heard- crying, moaning, groaning, and shrieking out their grief. When the people arose again, they enlarged the circle by facing towards the center the hold of hands, and moving around in the manner of school children in their play "needle's eye." And now the most intense excitement began. The people would as fast as they could, with their hands moving from side to side, their bodies swaying. If one, more weak and frail, came near falling, he would be jerked up and positioned until tired nature gave away. From the beginning they chanted, They chanted to monotonous tune, the words were. Father, I come; Mother, I come; Brother, I come; Father gives us back our arrows. They would repeat over ond over again until first one and then anyone woild break from the ring and stagger away and fall down. The people kept up dancing until fully 100 people were lying unconcious then they stopped and seated themselves in a circle, and as each recovered from his trait was brought to the center of the ring to relate his experience.

     As according to Wovoka, converts of the new religion were suppose to take part in the ghost dance to hassten the arrival of  the newera as promised by the mession. Even though the Bureau of Indian affairs banned the ghost dance as they did all other Indians spiritual rituals. The Lakotas adopted it and began composing sacred songs of hope: The whole world is coming, a nation is coming, a nation is coming, the eagle has brought them message to the tribe. The father says so , the father says so over the whole earth they are coming , The buffalo are coming, the buffalo are coming , the crow has brought the message to the tribe, The father says so, the father says so. The ghost dance religion promised an apocalypse in the coming years during which time the earth would be destroted, only to be recreated with the Indians as the inheritors of the new earth. The ghost dance finally ended.