God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America

by Louis S. Warren

Book Overview

The definitive account of the Ghost Dance religion, which led to the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890

Winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History

In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. In God's Red Son,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465015026
• ISBN13: 9780465015023
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"