S14 THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION [eth.anh.14 



there until exhausted, when he would slide to the ground, clinging 

 insensible to the pole. After remaining in this state for some time, the 

 medicine-men resuscitated him. On recovery he stood up and told them 

 he had been into another world, where he saw all the old men who had 

 died long ago, and among them his own people. They told him they 

 would all come back in time and bring the deer, the antelope, and all 

 other good things they had when they dwelt on this earth. This cere- 

 mony lasted four days, including the cleansing and decorating of the 

 dancers and the climbing of the pole, with an account of what had 

 been seen by the Indian during the time he was in an apparently life- 

 less state. Each day the ceremony was attended by the whole tribe. 

 ( Kiiim, l.) Resuscitation by the medicinemen, as here mentioned, is 

 something unknown among the prairie tribes, where the unconscious 

 subject is allowed to lie undisturbed on the ground until the senses 

 return in the natural way. 



Beyond the Cohonino, and extending for about 200 miles along Colo- 

 rado river on the Arizona side, are the associated tribes of Mohave, 

 Walapai, and Chemehuevi, numbering in all about 2,800 souls, of 

 whom only about one-third are on a reservation. The Chemehuevi, 

 being a branch of the Paiute and in constant communication with 

 them, undoubtedly had the dance and the doctrine. The Mohave also 

 have much to do with the Paiute, the two tribes interchanging visits 

 and mutually borrowing songs and games. They sent delegates to 

 the messiah and in all probability took up the Ghost dance, in spite of 

 the agent's statement to the contrary. As only 660 of more than 2,000 

 Mohave are reported as being on the reservation, the agent may have 

 a good reason for not keeping fully informed in regard to them. 



Concerning the Walapai we have positive information. In Septem- 

 ber, 1890, the commanding officer at Fort Whipple was informed that a 

 Paiute from southern Utah was among the Walapai, inciting them to 

 dance for the purpose of causing hurricanes and storms to destroy the 

 whites and such Indians as would not participate in the dances. It 

 was stated also that these dances had then been going on for several 

 months and were participated in by a large portion of the tribe, and 

 that each dance lasted four or live nights in succession. On investi- 

 gation it appeared that this Paiute was one of a party who had come 

 down and inaugurated the Ghost dance among the Walapai the preced- 

 ing year. ((r. D., 17.) 



We find an account of the Walapai Ghost dance in a local paper a 

 year later. The article states that all the songs were in the language of 

 the Paiute, from whom the doctrine had originally come. The Wala- 

 pai version of the doctrine has been already noted. The dance itself, 

 and the step, as here described, are essentially the same as among other 

 tribes. Each dance lasted five nights, and on the last night was kept 

 up until daylight. Just before daylight on the morning of the last night 

 the medicinemen ascended a small butte, where they met and talked 



