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Wovoka and the Ghost Dance
The religious fervor known as the Ghost Dance movement was precipitated by the prophecies and teachings of a northern Paiute Indian named Wovoka (Jack Wilson). During a solar eclipse on New Year’s Day, 1889, Wovoka experienced a revelation that promised harmony, rebirth, and freedom for Native Americans through the repeated performance of the traditional Ghost Dance. In 1890 his message spread rapidly among tribes, developing an intensity that alarmed the federal government and ended in tragedy at Wounded Knee. While the Ghost Dance phenomenon is well known, never before has its founder received such full and authoritative treatment. Indispensable for understanding the prophet behind the messianic movement, Wovoka and the Ghost Dance addresses for the first time basic questions about his message and This expanded edition includes a new chapter and appendices covering sources on Wovoka discovered since the first edition, as well as a supplemental bibliography.
The Ghost Dance
In this fascinating ethnohistorical case study of North American Indians, the Ghost Dance religion is the backbone for Kehoes exploration of significant aspects of American Indian life and her quest to learn why some theories become popular. In Part 1, she combines knowledge gained from her firsthand experiences living among and speaking with Indian elders with a careful analysis of historical accounts, providing a succinct yet insightful look at people, events, and institutions from the 1800s to the present. She clarifies unique and complex relationships among Indian peoples and dispels many of the false pretenses promoted by United States agencies over two centuries. In Part 2, Kehoe surveys some of the theories used to analyze the events described in Part 1, allowing readers to see how theories develop, to think critically about various perspectives, and to draw their own conclusions. Kehoes gripping presentation and analysis pave the way for just and constructive Indian-White relations.
The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee
Classic of American anthropology explores messianic cult behind Indian resistance, from Pontiac to the 1890s. Extremely detailed and thorough. Originally published in 1896 by the Bureau of American Ethnology. 38 plates, 49 other illustrations.
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Unable to stand by and do nothing while her Arctic homeland is plundered, a shaman's apprentice decides to uses her strong but still undeveloped power.
Ghost Dances and Identity
" This is a compellingly nuanced and sophisticated study of Indian peoples as negotiators and shapers of the modern world."—Richard White, author of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815
Ghost Dance
This is an unconventional memoir, beautifully written with an unexpected touch that will surprise and even delight the reader. Douglas Wright was one of the pioneers of contemporary dance in NZ and can now be revealed to be a superb writer as well. In this book he writes about growing up gay in a provincial New Zealand community becoming a dancer (he didn't start until he was 19) and moving from ballet to contemporary dance working in New York with the famous Paul Taylor Dance Company and becoming one of its stars gay relationships across the international arts scene performing with the Limbs company in Auckland drug and alcohol abuse and periods of ugly personal decline contracting HIV-AIDS a long-time close relationship with Janet Frame (the chapter on Frame is extraordinary, as good as anything from Michael King) searching for inspiration in his spiritual life (there's a fascinating account of going on a ten-day meditation retreat where the rule is total silence for the duration).
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