Wodziwob

…1869, led by the dreamer Wodziwob (died c. 1872) near Walker Lake in Nevada. A prominent feature was a ritual dance in which men and women joined hands and stepped sideways in a circle. In 1871–73 the movement spread to tribes in California and Oregon; it soon died out or…

…led by the Paiute prophet Wodziwob, centered in Nevada and California. It was an elaboration of the round dance, a traditional ceremony for the renewal and abundance of life. Wodziwob’s vision indicated that the dance would resurrect the victims of an epidemic that had decimated the region a year earlier.