Montana Ghost Dance

Author : John B. Wright
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Rani-Henrik Andersson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Gale A. Palmanteer
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1450283438

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Ghost Dance Ii by Gale A. Palmanteer Pdf

The amulet: good-luck charm or curse? Sam is convinced he would already be dead without it. Ross and Ruth have everything; children, and the Running R, a large cattle ranch located on the Flathead Indian Reservation of Montana, but there are problems. Ruth is tormented by secrets that threaten their idyllic life, and Indian Court decisions have angered tribal members and threaten the fragile peace between Indians and whites. Colonel Wolard and a regiment of the 5th Cavalry remain missing as word of the Ghost Dance spreads like a prairie fire from one reservation to another. In the Pasayten, hidden from time in the valley of the Sematuse, Bent Grass has a startling revelation giving her apocalyptic power to bring past, present and future together, but with alarming consequences.

Author : Alice Beck Kehoe
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478609247

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The Ghost Dance by Alice Beck Kehoe Pdf

In this fascinating ethnohistorical case study of North American Indians, the Ghost Dance religion is the backbone for Kehoes exploration of significant aspects of American Indian life and her quest to learn why some theories become popular. In Part 1, she combines knowledge gained from her firsthand experiences living among and speaking with Indian elders with a careful analysis of historical accounts, providing a succinct yet insightful look at people, events, and institutions from the 1800s to the present. She clarifies unique and complex relationships among Indian peoples and dispels many of the false pretenses promoted by United States agencies over two centuries. In Part 2, Kehoe surveys some of the theories used to analyze the events described in Part 1, allowing readers to see how theories develop, to think critically about various perspectives, and to draw their own conclusions. Kehoes gripping presentation and analysis pave the way for just and constructive Indian-White relations.

Author : Ken Byerly
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452078458

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Ghost Dance by Ken Byerly Pdf

GHOST DANCE, About the Book Recently divorced, hoping to jumpstart his journalistic career at the prestigious Washington Herald, Kyle Hansen returns to Montana to write a series of articles on the upcoming Lewis and Clark Bicentennial, and on his first day back he meets Ginny Foster, the tall, striking wife of a football coach he hated. Pursue, Kyle thinks, for lust, for revenge, but he has only two weeks. Then five whites assault two Indian kids in a bar and in retaliation the Blackfoot Tribe blockades roads in and out of Glacier Park. Kyles editor, Jack Levanthal, assigns him to stay and cover the story. Kyle wanders haunted battlefields. He seeks a mysterious holy road. He climbs a sacred mountain and alone on its summit performs the legendary ghost dance. He asks to see his dead brother again. Kyles college football teammate, Salmon Thirdkill, school principal on a God forsaken Indian reservation, becomes dangerously involved. Someone masterminds a series of cattle killings. Politicians mangle things. Magnetism propels Kyle and Ginny together. Violence rears. Choices must be made. Sports, Kyle learns, can break your heart.

Author : James Mooney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : 630 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Dakota Indians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118135131

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

Author : James Mooney
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803281773

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

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.

Author : Gregory E. Smoak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520256279

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Ghost Dances and Identity by Gregory E. Smoak Pdf

" 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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Ghost dance
ISBN : OCLC:607590578

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Ghost Dance by Anonim Pdf

Author : Denise Low,Ramon Powers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781496215154

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Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors by Denise Low,Ramon Powers Pdf

Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors presents Dodge City ledger-art images and biographies that document a Native perspective at the cusp of reservation life in 1879.

Author : Todd M. Kerstetter
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Lakota Indians
ISBN : 9780252030383

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God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land by Todd M. Kerstetter Pdf

While many studies of religion in the West have focused on the region's diversity, freedom, and individualism, Todd M. Kerstetter brings together the three most glaring exceptions to those rules to explore the boundaries of tolerance as enforced by society and the U.S. government.God's Country, Uncle Sam's Landanalyzes Mormon history from the Utah Expedition and Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 through subsequent decades of federal legislative and judicial actions aimed at ending polygamy and limiting church power. It also focuses on the Lakota Ghost Dancers and the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota (1890), and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas (1993). In sharp contrast to the mythic image of the West as the "Land of the Free," these three tragic episodes reveal the West as a cultural battleground--in the words of one reporter, "a collision of guns, God, and government." Kerstetter asks important questions about what happens when groups with a deep trust in their differing inner truths meet, and he exposes the religious motivations behind government policies that worked to alter Mormonism and extinguish Native American beliefs.

Author : Alexander Lesser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,5 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.

Author : David Humphreys Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : WISC:89058277922

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Ghost Dance by David Humphreys Miller Pdf

Author : Adrian C. Louis
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647790257

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The Ghost Dancers by Adrian C. Louis Pdf

Adrian C. Louis’s previously unpublished early novel has given us “the unsayable said” of the Native American reservation. A realistic look at reservation life, The Ghost Dancers explores—very candidly—many issues, including tribal differences, “urban Indians” versus “rez Indians,” relationships among Blacks, Whites, and Indians, police tactics on and off the rez, pipe ceremonies and sweat-lodge ceremonies, alcoholism and violence on the rez, visitations of the supernatural, poetry and popular music, the Sixties and the Vietnam War, the aims and responsibilities of journalism, and, most prominently, interracial sexual relationships. Readers familiar with Louis’s life and other works will note interesting connections between the protagonist, Bean, and Louis himself, as well as a connection between The Ghost Dancers and other Louis writings—especially his sensational novel Skins. It’s 1988, and Lyman “Bean” Wilson, a Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism at Lakota University in South Dakota, is reassessing his life. Although Bean is the great-grandson of Wovoka, the Paiute leader who initiated the Ghost Dance religion, he is not a full-blood Indian and he endures the scorn of the Pine Ridge Sioux, whose definition of Indian identity is much narrower. A man with many flaws, Bean wrestles with his own worst urges, his usually ineffectual efforts to help his family, and his determination to establish his identity as an Indian. The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual adventures, crises at work, pipe and sweat-lodge ceremonies, and—through his membership in the secret Ghost Dancers Society—political activism, culminating in a successful plot to blow the nose off George Washington’s face on Mount Rushmore. Quintessentially Louis, this raw, angry, at times comical, at times heartbreaking novel provides an unflinching look at reservation life and serves as an unyielding tribute to a generation without many choices.