Ghosts Dancing On Water

Author : Patricia Bernard
Publisher : Writers Exchange E-Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925191714

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Ghosts Dancing on Water by Patricia Bernard Pdf

When the heart is destroyed, the mind is capable of unspeakable things in the name of love... Stevie loves his little sister Lily and will always protect her. As children, he was the one who looked after her. If anyone threatened her, she could always depend on him. Protecting her from Roy was the most difficult of all. He had too much power over both of them... Stevie wonders why his sister isn't turning to him for help now. Where is she? Who's stopping her from contacting him? Determined to find her, Stevie won't be distracted from his single-minded purpose. He and Lily have to be together for always. As for the other bodies? When Stevie is crossed, people don't live long...

Author : Carole Maso
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640092457

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Ghost Dance by Carole Maso Pdf

"Although author Carole Maso follows the contours of fiction, style is everything in Ghost Dance, a strangely lovely and perplexing book . . . she has a fine ear and her literary gift is impressive." —San Francisco Chronicle Originally published in 1986, Ghost Dance is the first in a line of relentlessly experimental and highly esteemed works by Carole Maso. Vanessa Turin's family has been broken up by an event so devastating she cannot bear to face it straight on. Her mother, the brilliant and beautiful poet Christine Wing, seems simply to have disappeared, and her gentle, silent father also vanishes. In Ghost Dance, the reader experiences firsthand the dimensions of Vanessa's longing, the capabilities of her imagination, the persistence of her memory, and the ferocity of her love as she struggles to retrieve her family, to reclaim her country, and to come to terms with overwhelming sorrow.

Author : John B. Wright
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292785519

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Montana Ghost Dance by John B. Wright Pdf

Montana has been the "last best place" for so many people. A century ago, Native Americans gathered here to perform the Ghost Dance—a last, doomed attempt to make white settlers vanish and bring back the old ways of life. Today, people are still pouring into Montana, looking for the pristine wilderness they saw in A River Runs through It. The reality of Montana—indeed, of all the West—has never matched the myths, but this book eloquently explores how the search for a perfect place is driving growth, development, and resource exploitation in Big Sky country. In ten personal essays, John Wright looks at such things as Montana myths; old-timers; immigrants; elk; ways of seeing the landscape; land conservation and land trusts; the fate of the Blackfoot, Bitterroot, and Paradise valleys; and some means of preserving the last, best places. These reflections offer a way of understanding Montana that goes far beyond the headlines about militia groups and celebrities' ranches. Montana never was or will be a pristine wilderness, but Wright believes that much can be saved if natives and newcomers alike see what stands to be lost. His book is a wake-up call, not a ghost dance.

Author : James Mooney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486143330

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The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee by James Mooney Pdf

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.

Author : James Mooney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Social Science
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ1RB4

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The Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 by James Mooney Pdf

Author : Brooke Medicine Eagle
Publisher : Wellspring/Ballantine
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307557322

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The Last Ghost Dance by Brooke Medicine Eagle Pdf

In the celebrated Buffalo Woman Comes Singing, Brooke Medicine Eagle revealed her extraordinary spiritual odyssey from her first guided steps on the medicine path to her ongoing work as one of the most respected Native American teachers of the modern era. Now she shares a groundbreaking approach to spiritual transformation--by revitalizing the powerful ancient ritual The Ghost Dance. Four centuries ago, when European invaders were ruthlessly plundering indigenous cultures, a Paiute tribesman received a vision of hope and resurrection, given by Father Spirit, to help survivors of the onslaught create a beautiful new life in the face of defeat, broken dreams, and death. That vision was celebrated in an ecstatic ghost dance honoring those who had perished. Brooke Medicine Eagle explains how and why we are profoundly connected to The Ghost Dance. As she herself becomes initiated into the "illusion of death" and the wisdom of "heart-centered ascension," she teaches us how to confront our deepest fears, overcome our resistance to change, and renew our lives. Through prayer, music, and dance, Medicine Eagle provides us with the tools to bring about the final fulfillment of this profound ritual--by living in harmony with earth's rhythms, practicing sustainable living, honoring and sharing with all our relations, and freeing ourselves from the burden of possessions and possessiveness. Perceptive, practical, and luminous, The Last Ghost Dance is a call to action, a challenge to raise up from the ashes of our desecrated planet a world that welcomes the full flowering of the spirit--and a new age of abundance, love, and peace.

Author : M. J. Pangman,Melanie Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Hydrotherapy
ISBN : 0975272632

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Dancing with Water by M. J. Pangman,Melanie Evans Pdf

Author : Cora Alice Du Bois
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803206968

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The 1870 Ghost Dance by Cora Alice Du Bois Pdf

The 1870 Ghost Dance was a significant but too often disregarded transformative historical movement with particular impact on the Native peoples of northern California. The spiritual energies of this ?great wave,? as Peter Nabokov has called it, have passed down to the present day among Native Californians, some of whose contemporary individual and communal lives can be understood only in light of the dance and the complex religious developments inspired by it. Cora Du Bois's historical study, The 1870 Ghost Dance, has remained an essential contribution to the ethnographic record of Native Californian cultures for seven decades yet is only now readily available for the first time. Du Bois produced this pioneering work in the field of ethnohistory while still under the tutelage of anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber. Her monograph informs our understanding of Kroeber's larger, grand and crucial salvage-ethnographic project in California, its approach and style, and also its limitations. The 1870 Ghost Dance adds rich detail to our understanding of anthropology in California before World War II

Author : Rani-Henrik Andersson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496211071

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The Lakota Ghost Dance Of 1890 by Rani-Henrik Andersson Pdf

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.

Author : Don Lynch
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803273088

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Wovoka and the Ghost Dance by Don Lynch Pdf

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.

Author : Gale and Kandis Palmanteer
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595612277

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Ghost Dance by Gale and Kandis Palmanteer Pdf

The Sematuse tribes peaceful existence is challenged when several visitors inexplicably arrive in their hidden valley: Spotted Fawn; a lovely young girl lost and alone awakes to find herself in an unusual Indian village. Lone Frank; suffered too much tragedy in his life and seeks solace in his trap line until Sematuse children find him outside their village after a great blizzard. Breed; half white and half Indian becomes a scout for the U.S. Army and finds a strange cave that leads him to an unimaginable fate. Spiritwalker; a mysterious man who is more ghost than human. Outside the valley are three others intent upon their own goals and oblivious to the fate that awaits them. Roy; a cattle rustling scoundrel who is given several chances to save himself but chooses to ignore the warnings, Lance; intent only upon fulfilling his military duties and Father Donelli: a priest whose mission to save souls is overshadowed by greed. With peril awaiting Indians and soldiers alike, there is only one who can save themWaboka.

Author : John Norman
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497600300

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Ghost Dance by John Norman Pdf

In Ghost Dance, it is through Chance’s keen eyes and weary heart that readers embark on a journey of discovery and sorrow. On the run across the plains, Chance stumbles upon Running Horse, a Sioux warrior enacting the sacred and violent ritual of the Sun Dance. Quickly, Chance is pulled into the world of the Sioux people. As their civilization teeters on the brink of destruction, the Sioux perform the mournful and frightening Ghost Dance. Clashes with the white man are frequent; the Wounded Knee Massacre approaches, still in the unknown distance; and violence and anger threaten the traditions of a proud and once‐great people. Nearby, in her quaint sod house, Miss Lucia Turner awaits the full impact of those clashes. Dust on the horizon signals great change coming to her once‐simple life. Lucia will soon become a different kind of woman. With Ghost Dance, author John Norman brings the same vigor and passion of storytelling and imagination that enriches his classic Gor novels to a vivid story of historical upheaval and personal exploration.

Author : Rebecca Levene
Publisher : Abaddon Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849972239

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Ghost Dance by Rebecca Levene Pdf

A Dance into Darkness... Morgan is sent on a new mission for the Hermetic Division, investigating the murder of the world's foremost expert on the Elizabethan alchemist, John Dee. The killer is an agent of Mossad with superhuman powers. In America, a powerful medium called Alex is employed by the CIA to investigate a cult called the Croatoans, who seem to be able to possess animals. Alex and Morgan's paths cross when Morgan is drawn to the US in pursuit of Dee's greatest treasure and a dangerous young man who plans to use it to achieve immortality!

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781466880498

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Walker and The Ghost Dance by Derek Walcott Pdf

Dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate On a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In Ghost Dance, first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone conclusion -- Sitting Bull and his Sioux followers will die at the hands of the Army and Indian agents -- into a portrait of life at a crossroads of American history. In Walker, an opera first performed in 1992 and revised for its revival in 2001, Walcott shifts his attention east, taking for his subject David Walker, the nineteenth-century black abolitionist. In Walcott 's hands Walker becomes a classical hero for his people: a leader who is also a poet.

Author : Alexander Lesser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803279655

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The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game by Alexander Lesser Pdf

The Ghost Dance religion that swept through the Plains Indian tribes in the early 1890s was embraced wholeheartedly by the Pawnees. It was a message of hope to a people devastated by the attacks of enemy tribes, the encroachment of white settlers, and the outbreak of epidemics. For the Pawnees, who were looking to the U.S. government and trying unsuccessfully to farm their land, the Ghost Dance movement promised salvation: a restoration of the Indian dead, the buffalo, and the old times. Alexander Lesser shows how the Ghost Dance brought about a partial revival of traditional Pawnee culture and its dances and songs. The ancient guessing hand game, remembered best by a tribe starved for the joy of play, became an important part of the Ghost Dance ritual. What had been a gambling game, a representation of warfare played by men, was transformed into a sacred game played by both sexes as an expression of faith or ?good fortune.? Lesser surveys the history of the Pawnee Indians and their relations with the federal government and describes in detail the Ghost Dance hand games that ?were the chief intellectual product of Pawnee culture? from the onset of the messianic movement to the original publication of this book in 1933. Citing such authorities as James Mooney and Stewart Culin, Lesser produced an enduring classic, now introduced by Alice Beck Kehoe, a professor of anthropology at Marquette University and the author of The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization.