Ghost Dance
Title | Ghost Dance PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1952 |
Genre | Ghost dance |
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The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee
Title | The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee PDF eBook |
Author | James Mooney |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 578 |
Release | 2012-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0486143333 |
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.
Wovoka and the Ghost Dance
Title | Wovoka and the Ghost Dance PDF eBook |
Author | Don Lynch |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 396 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803273085 |
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
Title | The Ghost Dance PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ani |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 2016-08-21 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781535547659 |
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 Lakota Ghost Dance Of 1890
Title | The Lakota Ghost Dance Of 1890 PDF eBook |
Author | Rani-Henrik Andersson |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 551 |
Release | 2020-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1496211073 |
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. Purchase the audio edition.
Ghost Dances and Identity
Title | Ghost Dances and Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory E. Smoak |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2008-03-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520256271 |
" 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
The Ghost Dance
Title | The Ghost Dance PDF eBook |
Author | Alice McLerran |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 44 |
Release | 2001-03-27 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780618111435 |
"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