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

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

by Louis S. Warren
God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America

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

by Louis S. Warren

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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, historian Louis Warren offers a startling new view of the religion known as the Ghost Dance, from its origins in the visions of a Northern Paiute named Wovoka to the tragedy in South Dakota. To this day, the Ghost Dance remains widely mischaracterized as a primitive and failed effort by Indian militants to resist American conquest and return to traditional ways. In fact, followers of the Ghost Dance sought to thrive in modern America by working for wages, farming the land, and educating their children, tenets that helped the religion endure for decades after Wounded Knee. God's Red Son powerfully reveals how Ghost Dance teachings helped Indians retain their identity and reshape the modern world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780465098682
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 04/04/2017
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 1,044,119
File size: 27 MB
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Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Louis S. Warren is the W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western US History at the University of California, Davis. The award-winning author of several books, Warren lives in Davis, California.

Table of Contents

Figures ix

Maps xi

Author's Note on Terminology xiii

Introduction: A Hole in the Dream 1

Part 1 Genesis

Chapter 1 1890: The Messiah and the Machine 21

Chapter 2 Great Basin Apocalypse 54

Chapter 3 The Birth of the Prophet 69

Chapter 4 The Ghost Dance Arrives 93

Chapter 5 Indian Prophecy, American Magic 115

Part 2 Dispersion

Chapter 6 Seekers from a Shattered Land 143

Chapter 7 Plains Passage 177

Chapter 8 Lakota Ordeal 210

Chapter 9 Tin Stars and Holy Power 236

Chapter 10 Spirit of the Ghost Dance 254

Chapter 11 Invasion and Atrocity 271

Part 3 Persistence and Renewal

Chapter 12 The Road from Wounded Knee 297

Chapter 13 Writing The Ghost Dance Religion and Sioux Outbreak of 1890 325

Chapter 14 Conclusions: The Ghost Dance as Modern Religion 364

Epilogue: Beginnings 379

Acknowledgments 403

Notes 407

Index 465

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