The album takes its name from the late 19th century Native American movement, which is still relevant today. Our society shines bright from the green corporate star, taking us away from the land, our spiritual self, and into the great binary plastic system. The Pine Hill Haints long for a day when this wasn't the case and attempt to channel and haunt us with the memory of who we once were. Growing up in the lower Appalachians, the band learned its sound from old men and women playing on porches and in living rooms, under ancient oaks and in paper mill forests. Ghost Dance is runaway children, train jumpers, the mystery of life and death, and the smashed skull of the once great Choctaw Nation.