Indian Ghost Dance
Ceremonies at the Ranch

The Ghost Dances of 1889 at
Grand Canyon West Ranch

THE GHOST DANCE, of course, was not a traditional Pai ceremony. At the time of its 1870 diffusion, the Southern Painte and the Pai were apparently not on friendly enough terms for the cult to be communicated from north to south. Friction between the two groups was fostered by the U.S. Army commander of the Upper Colorado sub district, who reported that he sent to Ft. Mohave on Oct. 29, 1867, a Painte chief named Varanap “who I had succeeded in getting to accompany me for the reasons that I would be sure of no outbreak from them while absent, that I wished to get them in hostility with the Hualapais, whose Country adjoins theirs, separated by the Colorado River...” (U. S. Senate 1936). The importance of the 1870 ghost dance among the Southern Painte... Read More »

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