Ghost dances and identity : prophetic religion and American Indian ethnogenesis in the nineteenth century / Gregory E. Smoak.
"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...
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Berkeley :
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[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- Snakes and diggers : the origins of new ethnic identities
- Shamans, prophets, and missionaries : Newe religion in the nineteenth century
- Treaty making and consolidation : the politics of ethnogenesis
- Two trails : resistance, accommodation, and the 1870 ghost dance
- Culture wars, Indianness, and the 1890 ghost dance
- Prophecy and American identities.