The Ghost Dance

by James Mooney

Book Overview

Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost Dance among tribes of the western United States in the early 1890s, James Mooney set out to describe and understand the phenomenon. He visited Wovoka, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157215201X
• ISBN13: 9781572152014
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: World Publications (MA)
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Native American History Book

This is one of the best, if not THE best, book about what led to the Great Sioux uprising that ultimately caused the destruction of the Great Sioux Nation, the U.S. government banishment to current abysmal reservations and their descent into depression and humiliation, widespread alcoholism and drug addiction and ultimately near genocide. Well documented, well written and comprehensive details of Wavoka's vision and subsequent dissemination of the Ghost Dance, adopted by many Native American tribes, which caused great fear in official Washington as well as the general western white population.