Dance was that an Indian Messiah would then come, and restore the land to the Native Americans who originally inhabited it by destroying the white man. Perhaps by people starting to perform this ceremony, this Indian Messiah is the one who transforms to the killer and takes a white man's life, and slowly removes the white man from this land. As Marie says to Dr. Faulkner and Dr. Mather: "If the Ghost Dance had worked, you wouldn't be here. You'd be dust"(313).
             Although many people saw the killer at some point in the book, the police never were able to get any description from people as to what he or she looked like, possibly because it wasn't a he or she. This is
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