Host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Louis S. Warren about his book Gods Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America, which describes the pan-Indian religious movement that swept ...

The Native American Ghost Dance movement arose in the late 1800’s and featured large circle dances as well as teachings that became a part of American Indian belief systems. The movement was ...

The Ghost Dance was a Native American religious revival that ended in a mass grave of nearly 150 Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Most of what is known as the Ghost Dance movement took ...

Christian salvation narratives often focus exclusively on Jesus' relationship with humanity, but Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk and the Ghost Dance tradition proclaim a broader vision of salvation: ...

Ghost Dancers tells the history of the Ghost Dance Movement. By the winter of 1899-1890, the Lakotah’s pain had become too great to endure, and they began to give credence to a rumor about an Indian ...

Great Basin context : power in nature, shamanism, and the round dance -- Naraya songs related to the 1890 ghost dance movement -- Water -- Fog, mountains, and rocks -- Animals : ground people, sky ...

Foreword / Edward H. Spicer -- Preface -- I. The Ghost Dance movement. Ghost Dance form ; Degree of ceremonial intensity ; Vision trance aspect -- II. Acceptance by the Pai. Pai factionalism under ...