Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824-1932

by Joshua David Bellin and Joshua David Bellin

From the 1820s to the 1930s, Christian missionaries and federal agents launched a continent-wide assault against Indian sacred dance, song, ceremony, and healing ritual in an attempt to transform Indian peoples into American citizens. In spite of this century-long religious persecution, Native peoples continued to perform their sacred traditions and resist the foreign religions imposed on them, as well as to develop new practices that partook of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812240340
• ISBN13: 9780812240344
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"