Shoshone ghost dance religion: poetry songs and Great Basin context

"The Ghost Dance, which figured in the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, was a widespread Native American religious movement. Judith Vander's pathbreaking Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion demonstrates that it was not a single religion, but had two branches--the Great Basin branch, a nature relig...

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Main Author: Vander, Judith (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana [u.a.] Univ. of Illinois Press 1997
Series:Music in American life
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Summary:"The Ghost Dance, which figured in the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, was a widespread Native American religious movement. Judith Vander's pathbreaking Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion demonstrates that it was not a single religion, but had two branches--the Great Basin branch, a nature religion typified by Shoshone Ghost Dance songs (Naraya), and the Plains branch, documented by famed anthropologist James Mooney in 1896. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:XXIV, 631 S. Ill., Kt., Notenbeisp.
ISBN:0252022149

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