Ghost Dances and Identity : Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century /

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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 Ame...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smoak, Gregory E., 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Zeremonie
Shoshone
Ethnische Identität
Bannock
Shoshoni Indians > Rites and ceremonies
Shoshoni Indians > Religion
Ghost dance
HISTORY > Native American.
RELIGION > Ethnic & Tribal.
Bannock (Indiens) > Identite ethnique.
Bannock (Indiens) > Religion.
Bannock (Indiens) > Rites et ceremonies.
Shoshone (Indiens) > Identite ethnique.
Shoshone (Indiens) > Religion.
Shoshone (Indiens) > Rites et ceremonies.
Danse des esprits > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Bannock Indians > Ethnic identity.
Bannock Indians > Religion.
Bannock Indians > Rites and ceremonies.
Shoshoni Indians > Ethnic identity.
Shoshoni Indians > Religion.
Shoshoni Indians > Rites and ceremonies.
Ghost dance > History > 19th century.
Bannock.
Shoshone.
USA
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Snakes" and "diggers" : the origins of new ethnic identities
  • Shamans, prophets, and missionaries : new religion in the nineteenth century
  • Treaty making and consolidation : the politics of ethnogenesis
  • "Twotrails" : resistance, accommodation, and the 1870 ghost dance
  • Culture wars, Indianness, and the 1890 ghost dance
  • Ghost dances and American Indian identity.

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