Discusses the Ghost Dance as a religious response to ongoing and deepening conflicts between American Indians and the U.S. government. Features discussion of the Sioux and the massacre at Wounded Knee. The American Indian, the American Flag . Accompanied 1976 exhibition on the American flag motif and other patriotic symbols in American Indian art. Catalogue essay describes native-white relations as background for use of motif.
Tribes represented in exhibition are mostly from Northwest, Southwest, and Plains states.
Transitions, The Burdick Collection . State Historical Society of North Dakota, 1987. Discussion of the transition of Plains Indians from their traditional culture to their confinement on reservations and forced assimilation to Euro-American culture. Includes examples of the American flag motif. Powers, William K. Oglala Religion .