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 ...

A fusion of traditional Native American music, modern jazz and chamber music. The Ghost Dance was a messianic movement that swept through the Plains region in the late 19th century. This particular ...

Sometime toward the end of the eighteen-eighties, a Paiute holy man named Wovoka had a vision that promised the rebirth and renewal of Indigenous nations on the North American continent. His prophecy ...

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 ...

After the victory of the Battle of Little Bighorn, the Sioux Indians fought in a series of battles, led by Crazy Horse, where, ultimately, the tables were turned. The Indians lost until finally they ...

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 ...