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The Lakota ghost dance of 1890 [electronic resource] / Rani-Henrik Andersson.

By: Publication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 437 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780803220423
  • 0803220421
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lakota ghost dance of 1890.DDC classification:
  • 299.7/9809034 22
LOC classification:
  • E99.T34 A63 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Wanáǧvi Wachípi ki̜ -- The Indian agents and the Lakota Ghost Dance -- "To protect and suppress trouble": the army responds -- Missionary views on the Lakota Ghost Dance -- "In an atmosphere pregnant with mysteries": press coverage of the Ghost Dance -- The U.S. Congress and the Ghost Dance -- Conclusion: toward "a great story" of the Lakota Ghost Dance -- Appendixes: 1. A chronology of events during the Lakota Ghost Dance period -- 2. Phonetic key to the Lakota language -- 3. The Messiah letters -- 4. Kicking Bear's speech, October 9, 1890 -- 5. Short Bull's speech, October 31, 1890.
Summary: A broad range of perspectives from Natives and non-Natives makes this book the most complete account and analysis of the Lakota ghost dance ever published. A revitalization movement that swept across Native communities of the West in the late 1880s, the ghost dance took firm hold among the Lakotas, perplexed and alarmed government agents, sparked the intervention of the U.S. Army, and culminated in the massacre of hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in December 1890.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-421) and index.

Wanáǧvi Wachípi ki̜ -- The Indian agents and the Lakota Ghost Dance -- "To protect and suppress trouble": the army responds -- Missionary views on the Lakota Ghost Dance -- "In an atmosphere pregnant with mysteries": press coverage of the Ghost Dance -- The U.S. Congress and the Ghost Dance -- Conclusion: toward "a great story" of the Lakota Ghost Dance -- Appendixes: 1. A chronology of events during the Lakota Ghost Dance period -- 2. Phonetic key to the Lakota language -- 3. The Messiah letters -- 4. Kicking Bear's speech, October 9, 1890 -- 5. Short Bull's speech, October 31, 1890.

A broad range of perspectives from Natives and non-Natives makes this book the most complete account and analysis of the Lakota ghost dance ever published. A revitalization movement that swept across Native communities of the West in the late 1880s, the ghost dance took firm hold among the Lakotas, perplexed and alarmed government agents, sparked the intervention of the U.S. Army, and culminated in the massacre of hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in December 1890.

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