Ghost Dances and Identity
Subtitle: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780520246584
Subjects: Ethnography; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; History; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Religion; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; Social Science / Native American Studies; Ethnic Studies - General; Americas (North Central South West Indies); 19th century; Ghost dance; Rites and ceremonies; Shoshoni Indians
First sentence: WHEN THE MEMBERS OF LEWIS and Clark's Corps of Discovery crossed the Continental Divide and descended into what is today Idaho's Lemhi Valley, they entered a complex and dynamic native world created by the ancestors of the modern Shoshone-Bannock people.