Ghost dances and identity
Subtitle: prophetic religion and American Indian ethnogenesis in the nineteenth century
By: Gregory E. Smoak.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Ghost dance -- History -- 19th century; Shoshoni Indians -- Rites and ceremonies; Shoshoni Indians -- Religion; Shoshoni Indians -- Ethnic identity; Bannock Indians -- Rites and ceremonies; Bannock Indians -- Religion; Bannock Indians -- Ethnic identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Snakes" and "diggers" : the origins of new ethnic identities; title: Shamans, prophets, and missionaries : new religion in the nineteenth century; title: Treaty making and consolidation : the politics of ethnogenesis; title: "Twotrails" : resistance, accommodation, and the 1870 ghost dance; title: Culture wars, Indianness, and the 1890 ghost dance; title: Ghost dances and American Indian identity.