Ghost Dances And Identity

Author : Gregory Smoak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520941721
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Dances and Identity written by Gregory Smoak and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gregory E. Smoak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520256271
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Dances and Identity written by Gregory E. Smoak and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " 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 : Alexander Lesser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803279650
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game written by Alexander Lesser and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alexander Lesser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pawnee Ghost Dance and Hand Game written by Alexander Lesser and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Lesser
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game written by Alexander Lesser and published by New York : Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1933 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the history of the Pawnee from the very early 1800's. Looks specifically at the complexities of the ghost dance and the hand game and maintaining the essential values of the Native American culture.

Author : Cora Alice Du Bois
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803206960
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1870 Ghost Dance written by Cora Alice Du Bois and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Edwin Daniels
Publisher : Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Dancing written by Edwin Daniels and published by Stewart, Tabori, & Chang. This book was released on 1998 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as many Native Americans as a messenger for the Indian people, JD Challenger's art teaches us about the symbols and ceremonies of the Native American religious movement known as the Ghost Dance. In art and prose, GHOST DANCING celebrates the beauty and power of the religion's visions, dreams, and symbols. 75 color images. 50 b&w illustrations.

Author : Sheila C. Bibb
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004399445
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Framing the Apocalypse written by Sheila C. Bibb and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Adrian C. Louis
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1647790255
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Dancers written by Adrian C. Louis and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrian C. Louis’s previously unpublished early novel has given us “the unsayable said” of the Native American reservation. A realistic look at reservation life, The Ghost Dancers explores—very candidly—many issues, including tribal differences, “urban Indians” versus “rez Indians,” relationships among Blacks, Whites, and Indians, police tactics on and off the rez, pipe ceremonies and sweat-lodge ceremonies, alcoholism and violence on the rez, visitations of the supernatural, poetry and popular music, the Sixties and the Vietnam War, the aims and responsibilities of journalism, and, most prominently, interracial sexual relationships. Readers familiar with Louis’s life and other works will note interesting connections between the protagonist, Bean, and Louis himself, as well as a connection between The Ghost Dancers and other Louis writings—especially his sensational novel Skins. It’s 1988, and Lyman “Bean” Wilson, a Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism at Lakota University in South Dakota, is reassessing his life. Although Bean is the great-grandson of Wovoka, the Paiute leader who initiated the Ghost Dance religion, he is not a full-blood Indian and he endures the scorn of the Pine Ridge Sioux, whose definition of Indian identity is much narrower. A man with many flaws, Bean wrestles with his own worst urges, his usually ineffectual efforts to help his family, and his determination to establish his identity as an Indian. The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual adventures, crises at work, pipe and sweat-lodge ceremonies, and—through his membership in the secret Ghost Dancers Society—political activism, culminating in a successful plot to blow the nose off George Washington’s face on Mount Rushmore. Quintessentially Louis, this raw, angry, at times comical, at times heartbreaking novel provides an unflinching look at reservation life and serves as an unyielding tribute to a generation without many choices.

Author : Tisa Joy Wenger
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807832626
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Have a Religion written by Tisa Joy Wenger and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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