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The ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890 / by James Mooney ; introduction to the Bison book edition by Raymond J. DeMallie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mooney, James, 1861-1921.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghost dance.
- Dakota Indians--Wars, 1890-1891.
- Dakota Indians.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi pages, pages 653-1136 : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1991]
- Summary:
- 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 Ghost Dance prophet, at his home in Nevada and traced the progress of the Ghost Dance from place to place, describing the ritual and recording the distinctive song lyrics of seven separate tribes.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Washington, D.C. : G.P.O., 1896 as pt. 2 of the fourteenth annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1892-93.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 1104-1110) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0803231555
- 0803281773
- OCLC:
- 24173500
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