Ghost Dances and Identity
Subtitle: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 3, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780520256279
Subjects: History; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; North America; The Americas; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Social Science / Native American Studies
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.