<P> The Ghost Dance (Caddo: Nanissáanah, also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) was a new religious movement incorporated into numerous American Indian belief systems . According to the teachings of the Northern Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka (renamed Jack Wilson), proper practice of the dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead, bring the spirits of the dead to fight on their behalf, make the white colonists leave, and bring peace, prosperity, and unity to Native American peoples throughout the region . </P> <P> The basis for the Ghost Dance, the circle dance, is a traditional form that has been used by many Native American peoples since prehistoric times, but this new ceremony was first practiced among the Nevada Northern Paiute in 1889 . The practice swept throughout much of the Western United States, quickly reaching areas of California and Oklahoma . As the Ghost Dance spread from its original source, Indian tribes synthesized selective aspects of the ritual with their own beliefs . </P>

Why did the plains tribes began performing the ghost dance in 1889
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