num_pages: 36
description: A facsimile reprint of Chapter 7 from the 14th Annual report, 1892-3, of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology. "Our knowledge of the Smohalla ritual is derived from the account given by Major MacMurray and from the statements of Kakima and Palus informants. The Indian account is that of initiates and true believers, one of them being the regular interpreter of the Smohalla services on Yakima reservation. The officer had already seen the ceremonial performances at the Indian villages at Celito and Umatila in Oregon, at Tumwater and Yakima gap in Washington, but found its greatest development at the fountainhead, the home of Smohalla at Priest rapids. His account is so full of interest that we give it almost in its entirety."
language: English
title: The Ghost Dance Religion: Smohalla and His Doctrine
titlecomplete: The Ghost Dance Religion: Smohalla and His Doctrine
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Shorey Book Store