Walker And The Ghost Dance

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Don Lynch
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : James Mooney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Gregory E. Smoak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Alice Beck Kehoe
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : E. B. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735321850

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Ghost Dance by E. B. Brown Pdf

Author : James Mooney
Publisher : World Publications (MA)
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210010963575

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The Ghost Dance by James Mooney Pdf

First published a century ago, The Ghost Dance is a unique first-hand account of a messianic movement against white subjugation that arose among Native Americans of the West and the Plains in the latter part of the 19th-century.

Author : Louis S. Warren
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465098682

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God's Red Son by Louis S. Warren Pdf

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.

Author : James Mooney
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Rani-Henrik Andersson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : James Mooney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : 642 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Dakota Indians
ISBN : UCBK:C006937922

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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:637714638

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Ghost Dance by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Ghost dance
ISBN : OCLC:607590578

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Ghost Dance by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cora Alice Du Bois
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,6 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