George Pyle: The Ghost Dance returns, this time to lead the white man to ruin

The whites and the Indians of Utah may have more in common than either of them thinks. If you collapse the last 140 years.About that long ago, a belief in something called the Ghost Dance spread rapidly through many Native American nations in the Southwest and Great Plains. It was a religious movement founded by a member of Nevada’s Northern Paiute tribe, a mystic named Wovoka.During a solar eclipse on Jan. 1, 1889, Wovoka said, he had a vision of a renewal of the Native peoples of North A