Title Ghost dances and identity : prophetic religion and American Indian ethnogenesis in the nineteenth century / Gregory E. Smoak

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) Contents "Snakes" and "diggers" : the origins of new ethnic identities -- Shamans, prophets, and missionaries : new religion in the nineteenth century -- Treaty making and consolidation : the politics of ethnogenesis -- "Twotrails" : resistance, accommodation, and the 1870 ghost dance -- Culture wars, Indianness, and the 1890 ghost dance -- Ghost dances and American Indian identity Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Ghost dance -- History -- 19th century Shoshoni Indians -- Rites and ceremonies Shoshoni Indians -- Religion Shoshoni Indians -- Ethnic identity Bannock Indians -- Rites and ceremonies Bannock Indians -- Religion Bannock Indians -- Ethnic identity RELIGION -- Ethnic & Tribal. HISTORY -- Native American. Ghost dance Shoshoni Indians -- Religion Shoshoni Indians -- Rites and ceremonies Bannock Ethnische Identität Shoshone Zeremonie USA Shoshone. Bannock. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520941724 0520941721 1423731379 9781423731375 0520246586 9780520246584

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