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The Ghost Dancers

Author : Adrian C. Louis
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1647790255
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Dancers written by Adrian C. Louis and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrian C. Louis’s previously unpublished early novel has given us “the unsayable said” of the Native American reservation. A realistic look at reservation life, The Ghost Dancers explores—very candidly—many issues, including tribal differences, “urban Indians” versus “rez Indians,” relationships among Blacks, Whites, and Indians, police tactics on and off the rez, pipe ceremonies and sweat-lodge ceremonies, alcoholism and violence on the rez, visitations of the supernatural, poetry and popular music, the Sixties and the Vietnam War, the aims and responsibilities of journalism, and, most prominently, interracial sexual relationships. Readers familiar with Louis’s life and other works will note interesting connections between the protagonist, Bean, and Louis himself, as well as a connection between The Ghost Dancers and other Louis writings—especially his sensational novel Skins. It’s 1988, and Lyman “Bean” Wilson, a Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism at Lakota University in South Dakota, is reassessing his life. Although Bean is the great-grandson of Wovoka, the Paiute leader who initiated the Ghost Dance religion, he is not a full-blood Indian and he endures the scorn of the Pine Ridge Sioux, whose definition of Indian identity is much narrower. A man with many flaws, Bean wrestles with his own worst urges, his usually ineffectual efforts to help his family, and his determination to establish his identity as an Indian. The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual adventures, crises at work, pipe and sweat-lodge ceremonies, and—through his membership in the secret Ghost Dancers Society—political activism, culminating in a successful plot to blow the nose off George Washington’s face on Mount Rushmore. Quintessentially Louis, this raw, angry, at times comical, at times heartbreaking novel provides an unflinching look at reservation life and serves as an unyielding tribute to a generation without many choices.

The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee

Author : James Mooney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486143333
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee written by James Mooney and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Ghost Dances and Identity

Author : Gregory E. Smoak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520256271
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Dances and Identity written by Gregory E. Smoak and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " 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

Wovoka and the Ghost Dance

Author : Don Lynch
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803273085
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Wovoka and the Ghost Dance written by Don Lynch and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890

Author : Rani-Henrik Andersson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803220421
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 written by Rani-Henrik Andersson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad range of perspectives from Natives and non-Natives makes this book the most complete account and analysis of the Lakota ghost dance ever published. A revitalization movement that swept across Native communities of the West in the late 1880s, the ghost dance took firm hold among the Lakotas, perplexed and alarmed government agents, sparked the intervention of the U.S. Army, and culminated in the massacre of hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in December 1890. Although the Lakota ghost dance has been the subject of much previous historical study, the views of Lakota participants have not been fully explored, in part because they have been available only in the Lakota language. Moreover, emphasis has been placed on the event as a shared historical incident rather than as a dynamic meeting ground of multiple groups with differing perspectives. In The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890, Rani-Henrik Andersson uses for the first time some accounts translated from Lakota. This book presents these Indian accounts together with the views and observations of Indian agents, the U.S. Army, missionaries, the mainstream press, and Congress. This comprehensive, complex, and compelling study not only collects these diverse viewpoints but also explores and analyzes the political, cultural, and economic linkages among them.

Ghost Dances

Author : Josh Garrett-Davis
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316199850
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Dances written by Josh Garrett-Davis and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in South Dakota, Josh Garrett-Davis knew he would leave. But as a young adult, he kept going back -- in dreams and reality and by way of books. With this beautifully written narrative about a seemingly empty but actually rich and complex place, he has reclaimed his childhood, his unusual family, and the Great Plains. Among the subjects and people that bring his Midwestern Plains to life are the destruction and resurgence of the American bison; Native American "Ghost Dancers," who attempted to ward off destruction by supernatural means; the political allegory to be found in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; and current attempts by ecologists to "rewild" the Plains, complete with cheetahs. Garrett-Davis infuses the narrative with stories of his family as well -- including his great-great-grandparents' twenty-year sojourn in Nebraska as homesteaders and his progressive Methodist cousin Ruth, a missionary in China ousted by Mao's revolution. Ghost Dances is a fluid combination of memoir and history and reportage that reminds us our roots matter.

The Ghost Dance

Author : Michael Ani
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535547659
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Dance written by Michael Ani and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of years ago, the root 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 Plants: Desheto. The Mazatecan Indians of Oaxaca still believe that plant knowledge can be communicated through Desheto's pre-Colombian mushroom ritual. Each year when the rains came the Prince of Plants would continue to share this hidden history of the Americas with his scribe Ani. To deepen Ani's knowledge, the Prince of Plants sent his scribe on a journey through the most remote tribes of the Americas to find the last remnants of the ancient Ghost Dance ritual.

The Ghost Dance

Author : Alice Beck Kehoe
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478609249
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Dance written by Alice Beck Kehoe and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2006-06-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Alice McLerran
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618111435
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Dance written by Alice McLerran and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-03-27 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "McLerran's elegant, spare text begins by describing the result of white settlers' relentless westward movement in the U.S. The scenario is one often related in books sympathetic to Native Americans: buffalo, their hides stripped, left to rot on the prairie; streams stripped of fish; and herds of elk and buffalo depleted. In poetic prose, she talks about a Paiute visionary, Tavibo, and his son who each dreamed that if Native peoples danced, the white people would disappear and the ghosts of the wildlife that had been decimated would return. . . . Morin's thoughtful assemblages contain many objects that place the book in its historical context. The evocative paintings feature a variety of textures. . . . This stunning book will hold great appeal for environmentally conscious readers, and will interest classroom teachers seeking a poetic call-to-action." --School Library Journal, starred

God's Red Son

Author : Louis S. Warren
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465098681
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book God's Red Son written by Louis S. Warren and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the Ghost Dance religion, which led to the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 Winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. In God's Red Son, historian Louis Warren offers a startling new view of the religion known as the Ghost Dance, from its origins in the visions of a Northern Paiute named Wovoka to the tragedy in South Dakota. To this day, the Ghost Dance remains widely mischaracterized as a primitive and failed effort by Indian militants to resist American conquest and return to traditional ways. In fact, followers of the Ghost Dance sought to thrive in modern America by working for wages, farming the land, and educating their children, tenets that helped the religion endure for decades after Wounded Knee. God's Red Son powerfully reveals how Ghost Dance teachings helped Indians retain their identity and reshape the modern world.

The Ghost Dance

Author : Weston La Barre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781861712769
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Dance written by Weston La Barre and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploration of the Origins of Religion from an anthropological perspective with chapters on shamanism, psychology, Judaism Christianity, pretty story and altered states of consciousness.

Ghost Dance in Berlin

Author : Peter Wortsman
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 1609520793
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Dance in Berlin written by Peter Wortsman and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every great city is a restless work in progress, but nowhere is the urban impulse more in flux than in Berlin, that sprawling metropolis located on the fault line of history. A short-lived fever-dream of modernity in the Roaring Twenties, redubbed Germania and primped up into the megalomaniac fantasy of a Thousand-Year Reichstadt in the Thirties, reduced in 1945 to a divided rubble heap, subsequently revived in a schizoid state of post-World War II duality, and reunited in 1989 when the wall came tumbling down — Berlin has since been reborn yet again as the hipster hub of the 21st century. This book is a hopscotch tour in time and space. Part memoir, part travelogue, Ghost Dance in Berlin is an unlikely declaration of love, as much to a place as to a state of mind, by the American-born son of German-speaking Jewish refugees. Peter Wortsman imagines the parallel celebratory haunting of two sets of ghosts, those of the exiled erstwhile owners, a Jewish banker and his family, and those of the Führer’s Minister of Finance and his entourage, who took over title, while in another villa across the lake another gaggle of ghosts is busy planning the Final Solution.

Ghost Dancing the Law

Author : John William Sayer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674001848
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Dancing the Law written by John William Sayer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Wounded Knee trials demonstrates the impact that legal institutions and the media have on political dissent. Sayer draws on court records, news reports, and interviews to show how both the defense and the prosecution had to respond continually to legal constraints, media coverage, and political events outside the courtroom.

Hostiles?

Author : Sam Maddra
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806137438
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Hostiles? written by Sam Maddra and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Hostiles? Sam A. Maddra relates an ironic tale of Indian accommodation - and preservation of what the Lakota continued to believe was a principled, restorative religion. Their alleged crime was their participation in the Ghost Dance. To the U.S. Army, their religion was a rebellion to be suppressed. To the Indians, is offered hope in a time of great transition. To Cody, it became a means to attract British audiences. With these "hostile indians," the showman could offer dramatic reenactments of the army's conquest, starring none other than the very "hostiles" who had staged what British audiences knew from their newspapers to have been an uprising.".

Ghost Dancer

Author : Alan Kessler
Publisher : Leviathan Books
ISBN 13 : 9781938394591
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Dancer written by Alan Kessler and published by Leviathan Books. This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age 9, Eleanor Wilson sneaks out of her parents' marble mansion and among the grave houses in an Indian cemetery plays with the faceless doll she made from wood and corn silk. Twilight shadows gather around her. She runs home.Her mother is waiting."An Indian without a face. It's hideous." Constance Wilson takes the doll and burns it.That night in her bedroom, Eleanor watches the doll, shriveled by fire, materialize out of the darkness."Cry for your mother," it tells her. Eleanor is chosen.Nine years later, 1958, lonely, insecure, controlled by the rigid rules of her parents, she enters the realm of spirits and when discovering the secret about herself learns how she can save a dying world.

The Ghost Dance

Author : James Mooney
Publisher : World Publications (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Dance written by James Mooney and published by World Publications (MA). This book was released on 1996 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published a century ago, The Ghost Dance is a unique first-hand account of a messianic movement against white subjugation that arose among Native Americans of the West and the Plains in the latter part of the 19th-century.

The Cherokee Ghost Dance

Author : William Gerald McLoughlin
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865541283
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Cherokee Ghost Dance written by William Gerald McLoughlin and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these essays a distinguished historian analyzes how the Indian nations of the Southeast grappled with nationalism, slavery, and missionaries. Against the background of this "combined onslaught on their cultural identity," McLoughlin describes what the Indians did "to preserve what they considered most important." The fate of Native Americans was inextricably bound up with the most vital questions of national life"--Publisher's description.