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The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 (Paperback, New Ed)
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Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost Dance among tribes of
the western United States in the early 1890s, James Mooney set out
to describe and understand the phenomenon. He visited Wovoka, the
Ghost Dance prophet, at his home in Nevada and traced the progress
of the Ghost Dance from place to place, describing the ritual and
recording the distinctive song lyrics of seven separate tribes. His
classic work (first published in 1896 and here reprinted in its
entirety for the first time) includes succinct cultural and
historical introductions to each of those tribal groups and depicts
the Ghost Dance among the Sioux, the fears it raised of an Indian
outbreak, and the military occupation of the Sioux reservations
culminating in the tragedy at Wounded Knee. Seeking to demonstrate
that the Ghost Dance was a legitimate religious movement, Mooney
prefaced his study with a historical survey of comparable
millenarian movements among other American Indian groups. In
addition to his work on the Ghost Dance, James Mooney is best
remembered for his extraordinarily detailed studies of the Cherokee
Indians of the Southeast and the Kiowa and other tribes of the
southern plains, and for his advocacy of American Indian religious
freedom. Raymond J. DeMallie, director of the American Indian
Studies Research Institute and a professor of anthropology at
Indiana University, has edited James R. Walker's Lakota Society
(1982) andThe Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to
John G. Neihardt (1984), both published by the University of
Nebraska Press.
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