a period in the late 1800s when a religion prophesying a new age for the Indians was instituted by the Paiute Indians in Nevada. Their prophet Wovoka (1856 - 1932) prophesied that the white man would disappear, all of the Indians' ancestors would be resurrected from the dead and the tribesmen and women would live forever chasing down the new herds of buffalo that would reappear on the grasslands. The religion spread to most of the western Indians. —Conquest of Chaos Approved Glossary (8.7.92)