Format:
Online-Ressource (304 p.)
ISBN:
9780520246584
Content:
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 expre
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Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Endings and Beginnings; Part One. Identity and Prophecy in the Newe World; 1. Snakes and Diggers: The Origins of Newe Ethnic Identities; 2. Shamans, Prophets, and Missionaries: Newe Religion in the Nineteenth Century; Part Two. Identity, Prophecy, and Reservation Life; 3. Treaty Making and Consolidation:The Politics of Ethnogenesis; 4. Two Trails: Resistance, Accommodation,and the 1870 Ghost Dance; 5. Culture Wars, Indianness, and the 1890 Ghost Dance; Conclusion: Prophecy and American Identities; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520941724
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520256279
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ghost Dances and Identity : Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century
Language:
English
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