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We Shall Live Again - The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as Demographic Revitalization (Paperback, Revised)
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We Shall Live Again - The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as Demographic Revitalization (Paperback, Revised)
Series: American Sociological Association Rose Monographs
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This study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North
American Indians offers an innovative theory about why these
movements arose when they did. Emphasizing the demographic
situation of American Indians prior to the movements, Professor
Thornton argues that the Ghost Dances were deliberate efforts to
accomplish a demographic revitalization of American Indians
following their virtual collapse. By joining the movements, he
contends, tribes sought to assure survival by increasing their
numbers through returning the dead to life. Thornton supports this
thesis empirically by closely examining the historical context of
the two movements and by assessing tribal participation in them,
revealing particularly how population size and decline influenced
participation among and within American Indian tribes. He also
considers American Indian population change after the Ghost Dance
periods and shows that participation in the movements actually did
lead the way to a demographic recovery for certain tribes.
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