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Ghost dances and identity : prophetic religion and American Indian ethnogenesis in the nineteenth century /

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Main Author: Smoak, Gregory E., 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Ghost dance > History > 19th century.
Shoshoni Indians > Rites and ceremonies.
Shoshoni Indians > Religion.
Shoshoni Indians > Ethnic identity.
Bannock Indians > Rites and ceremonies.
Bannock Indians > Religion.
Bannock Indians > Ethnic identity.
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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.