From 1890 to 1978, the United States government made the Ghost Dance illegal. Why? Did the authorities fear the unity it could bring among Native Americans or did they also recognize that the Dance itself awakened a power all its own? Follow a nine thousand year journey through the world of talking plant to discover the root of the Ghost Dance; a ritual created to save the human strand in the weave of Nature. Thousands of years ago, the roots of the Ghost Dance ritual radiated out from the Mountains of the Clouds where the ancient Toltec god, the Plumed Serpent, Quetzalcoatl, first danced with the Lord of the Dead, Mictlantecuhtli, to create the civilizations of the Americas. As a gift to his children, the Plumed Serpent gave the people the Prince of Desheto. The Mazatecan Indians of Oaxaca still believe that plant knowledge can be communicated through Desheto’s pre-Colombian mushroom ritual. For many years the Prince of Plants shared this hidden history of the Americas with his scribe Ani. To deepen Ani’s knowledge, the Prince of Plants sent Ani on a journey through the most remote tribes of the Americas to find the last remnants of the ancient Ghost Dance ritual.