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The Ghost-Dance Religion
and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
Raymond J. DeMallie, James Mooney,
Cloth: 1991,xxx,531,CIP.LC 91-24546,0-8032-3155-5
Paper: 1991,xxx,531,CIP.LC 91-24546,0-8032-8177-3
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"A classic work that laid the
groundwork for the modern anthropological study of revitalization
movements, The Ghost-Dance Religion is a remarkable
combination of on-the-spot ethnographic reporting with
study of archival and published sources." -Raymond
J. DeMallie. Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost
Dance among tribes of the western United States in the
early 1890s, James Mooney set out to describe and understand
the phenomenon. He visited Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet,
at his home in Nevada and traced the progress of the
Ghost Dance from place to place, describing the ritual
and recording the distinctive song lyrics of seven separate
tribes. His classic work (first published in 1896 and
here reprinted in its entirety for the first time) includes
succinct cultural and historical introductions to each
of those tribal groups and depicts the Ghost Dance among
the Sioux, the fears it raised of an Indian outbreak,
and the military occupation of the Sioux reservations
culminating in the tragedy at Wounded Knee. Seeking
to demonstrate that the Ghost Dance was a legitimate
religious movement, Mooney prefaced his study with a
historical survey of comparable millenarian movements
among other American Indian groups. In addition to his
work on the Ghost Dance, James Mooney is best re-membered
for his extraordinarily detailed studies of the Cherokee
Indians of the Southeast and the Kiowa and other tribes
of the southern plains, and for his advocacy of American
Indian religious freedom. Raymond J. DeMallie, director
of the American Indian Studies Research Institute and
a professor of anthropology at Indiana University, has
edited James R. Walker's Lakota Society (1982) and The
Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John
G. Neihardt (1984), both published by the University
of Nebraska Press.
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