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Category : Idaho
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Sheepeater Indian Campaign, Chamberlin Basin Country
Author: Ghost Dances and Identity
Author: Gregory SmoakPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520941724
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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.
National Union Catalog
Author: The National union catalog, 1968-1972
Author: The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
Author: The American Book Collector
Author: Catalog of Printed Books. Supplement
Author: Bancroft LibraryPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia, Victoria
Author: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Library of Congress Catalog
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Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
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