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Ghost Dances and Identity
Author | : Gregory E. Smoak |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2008-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520256279 |
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" 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
Ghost Dances and Identity
Author | : Gregory Smoak |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2006-02-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520941724 |
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This innovative cultural history examines wide-ranging issues of religion, politics, and identity through an analysis of the American Indian Ghost Dance movement and its significance for two little-studied tribes: the Shoshones and Bannocks. The Ghost Dance has become a metaphor for the death of American Indian culture, but as Gregory Smoak argues, it was not the desperate fantasy of a dying people but a powerful expression of a racialized "Indianness." While the Ghost Dance did appeal to supernatural forces to restore power to native peoples, on another level it became a vehicle for the expression of meaningful social identities that crossed ethnic, tribal, and historical boundaries. Looking closely at the Ghost Dances of 1870 and 1890, Smoak constructs a far-reaching, new argument about the formation of ethnic and racial identity among American Indians. He examines the origins of Shoshone and Bannock ethnicity, follows these peoples through a period of declining autonomy vis-a-vis the United States government, and finally puts their experience and the Ghost Dances within the larger context of identity formation and emerging nationalism which marked United States history in the nineteenth century.
Hostiles
Author | : Sam Maddra |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806137436 |
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"In Hostiles? Sam A. Maddra relates an ironic tale of Indian accommodation - and preservation of what the Lakota continued to believe was a principled, restorative religion. Their alleged crime was their participation in the Ghost Dance. To the U.S. Army, their religion was a rebellion to be suppressed. To the Indians, is offered hope in a time of great transition. To Cody, it became a means to attract British audiences. With these "hostile indians," the showman could offer dramatic reenactments of the army's conquest, starring none other than the very "hostiles" who had staged what British audiences knew from their newspapers to have been an uprising.".
The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game
Author | : Alexander Lesser |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0803279655 |
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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.
The Pawnee Ghost Dance and Hand Game
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Author | : Alexander Lesser |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:257809074 |
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The 1870 Ghost Dance
Author | : Cora Alice Du Bois |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0803206968 |
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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
Framing the Apocalypse
Author | : Sheila C. Bibb,Alexandra Simon-López |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-07-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789004399440 |
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The apocalypse’s triumph is witnessed in the arts, literature, music, film, TV, and digital media thereby enabling us to view the very essence of Apocalypse as a cultural phenomenon.
We Have a Religion
Author | : Tisa Joy Wenger |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780807832622 |
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For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often act