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The ghost dance : ethnohistory and revitalization by Kehoe, Alice Beck, 1934-

Subjects: “…Ghost dance.…”

Dancing on common ground : tribal cultures and alliances on the Southern Plains by Meredith, Howard L.

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A dancing people : powwow culture on the southern Plains by Ellis, Clyde, 1958-

Contents: “…"We're a dancing people, always have been -- "It's our way of life. …”
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The Sun Dance people : the Plains Indians, their past and present by Erdoes, Richard, 1912-2008

Contents: “…An Ocean of Grass -- On Foot and Without a Gun -- The Spirit Dog -- "Indian Cattle" -- Life in a Tepee --The Dangerous Game -- Growing Up -- The Sound of Flutes -- The Give-away Party -- Order Without Law -- The Spirit World -- The Sun Dance -- The Ghost Trail -- A rising Demand for Beaver Hats -- The Covered Wagons -- The Mormon's Cow -- Nits Make Lice -- The Coming of Long Hair -- Whose Last Stand? …”

Black Elk's religion : the sun dance and Lakota Catholicism 1st ed. by Holler, Clyde

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God's red son : the Ghost Dance religion and the making of modern America by Warren, Louis S.

Contents: “…Introduction: A hole in the dream -- Genesis : 1890: the messiah and the machine ; Great Basin apocalypse ; The birth of the prophet ; The Ghost Dance arrives ; Indian prophecy, American magic -- Dispersion : Seekers from a shattered land ; Plains passage ; Lakota ordeal ; Tin stars and holy power ; Spirit of the Ghost Dance ; Invasion and atrocity -- Persistence and renewal : The road from Wounded Knee ; Writing "The Ghost Dance religion and Sioux outbreak of 1890" ; Conclusions: The Ghost Dance as modern religion.…”

The Plains Sioux and U.S. colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee by Ostler, Jeffrey

Contents: “…"To bring my people back into the hoop" : the development of the Lakota ghost dance --…”
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Kiowa voices by Boyd, Maurice, 1921-1999

Contents: “…v. 1. Ceremonial dance, ritual, and song -- v. 2. Myths, legends, and folktales.…”

The frontier newspapers and the coverage of the Plains Indian Wars by Reilly, Hugh J.

Contents: “…Laramie Treaty, 1868 -- Battle of the Little Big Horn -- Flight of the Nez Perce -- The Cheyenne outbreak -- The Standing Bear trial -- Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee -- Closing the circle.…”

Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux by Black Elk, 1863-1950

Contents: “…. -- The offering of the pipe -- Early boyhood -- The great vision -- The bison hunt -- At the soldier's town -- HIgh Horse's courting -- Wasichus in the hills -- The fight with Three Stars -- The rubbing out of Long Hair -- Walking the black road -- The killing of Crazy Horse -- Grandmother's land -- The compelling fear -- The horse dance -- The dog vision -- Heyoka ceremony -- The first cure -- The powers of the bison and the elk -- Across the Big Water -- The spirit journey -- The messiah -- Visions of the other world -- Bad trouble coming -- The butchering at Wounded Knee -- The end of the dream -- Author's postscript -- Appendixes. …”

Sitting Bull and the Great Sioux Nation by Arts and Entertainment Network, Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase

Contents: “…Sacred Land of the Past (2:05) -- Sioux: Nomads of the Great Plains (3:28) -- Origin of American Horses (1:23) -- Sioux Family Life (1:55) -- Lakota-Sioux Spirituality (2:06) -- Warrior Mentality (3:15) -- Red Cloud's War (1:19) -- Fetterman Disaster (2:45) -- Indian Chiefs in Washington (3:16) -- Black Hills: Rumors of Gold (1:28) -- Invasion of Non-Indians (0:51) -- Sitting Bull: Renaissance Man (2:54) -- Sitting Bull: Seer and Prophet (2:15) -- Custer's Last Stand: Vision Foretold (2:33) -- Sitting Bull's Surrender (1:59) -- Sitting Bull's Refusal (1:52) -- New Religion: Ghost Dance (2:44) -- Death of Sitting Bull (1:41) -- Disaster Looms at Wounded Knee (1:07) -- Massacre at Wounded Knee (3:18) -- Credits: Sitting Bull and the Great Sioux Nation (1:36)…”
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Plains Indian drawings, 1865-1935 : pages from a visual history by American Federation of Arts, Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.)

Contents: “…The seen and the unseen form the narrative-- / Colleen Cutschall, Lakota -- Of circularity and linearity in the work of Bear's Heart / Edgar Heap of Birds, Cheyenne-Arapaho -- Paradigms for hope and posterity : Wohaw's Sun Dance drawing / Jane Ash Poitras, Cree-Chipewyan -- Cetan Sapa Tatehila, Black Hawk's love / Francis Yellow, Lakota -- Catalogue. …”
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