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God's Red Son - The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America (Hardcover)
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God's Red Son - The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America (Hardcover)
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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. Louis Warren's God's
Red Son 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.
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