Ghost dances and identity: prophetic religion and American Indian ethnogenesis in the nineteenth century
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1. Verfasser: Smoak, Gregory E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press c2006
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"Snakes" and "diggers" : the origins of new ethnic identities -- Shamans, prophets, and missionaries : new religion in the nineteenth century -- Treaty making and consolidation : the politics of ethnogenesis -- "Twotrails" : resistance, accommodation, and the 1870 ghost dance -- Culture wars, Indianness, and the 1890 ghost dance -- Ghost dances and American Indian identity
This innovative cultural history examines wide-ranging issues of religion, politics, and identity through an analysis of the American Indian Ghost Dance movement and its significance for two little-studied tribes: the Shoshones and Bannocks. The Ghost Dance has become a metaphor for the death of American Indian culture, but as Gregory Smoak argues, it was not the desperate fantasy of a dying people but a powerful expression of a racialized "Indianness." While the Ghost Dance did appeal to supernatural forces to restore power to native peoples, on another level it became a vehicle for the expression of meaningful social identities that crossed ethnic, tribal, and historical boundaries. Looking closely at the Ghost Dances of 1870 and 1890, Smoak constructs a far-reaching, new argument about the formation of ethnic and racial identity among American Indians. He examines the origins of Shoshone and Bannock ethnicity, follows these peoples through a period of declining autonomy vis-a-vis the United States government, and finally puts their experience and the Ghost Dances within the larger context of identity formation and emerging nationalism which marked United States history in the nineteenth century
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ISBN:0520941721
1282360582
1423731379
1598758012
9780520246584
9780520941724
9781282360587
9781423731375
9781598758016

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