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The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890

Name: The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
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Contributors:

James Mooney, Raymond J. Demallie (Introduction by)

Publisher:

Bison Books

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

Book Topic:

American

Edition Description:

Revised Edition

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Release Date:

1991-11-01

ISBN 13:

9780803281776

Weight:

2.08 lbs

Size:

10.01 x 6.99 x 1.00 inches

Pages:

483

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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.

About the Author
Raymond J. DeMallie, director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute and a professor of anthropology at Indiana University, has edited James R. Walker's Lakota Society (1982) andThe Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt (1984), both published by the University of Nebraska Press.

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