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Ghost Dance The West, a Film by Stephen Ives by Infobase, Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Contents: “…Introduction to Sitting Bull (1:30) -- Swift Changes in the West (2:59) -- Oklahoma Land Rush & Sooners (2:33) -- Development in Oklahoma (2:31) -- Dawes Act (1:40) -- Alice Fletcher & Friends of the Indians (2:08) -- Sectioning Off Indian Reservations (2:13) -- Nez Perce Lost Land (1:53) -- Copper Discovery in Montana (2:07) -- Danger & Pollution in Copper Mines (2:47) -- Disregard for Consequences of Mining (1:20) -- Native American Suffering & Sitting Bull's Premonition (1:29) -- Ghost Dance (2:02) -- Soldier's Misinterpretation of Peaceful Ceremony (3:39) -- Tragedy at Wounded Knee (1:25) -- Big Foot at Wounded Knee (2:31) -- Second Massacre at Wounded Knee (2:31) -- Caring for Wounded (2:17) -- Burial of Slain Lakota (1:24) -- End of Ghost Dance & Legacy of Wounded Knee (1:19) -- Ethel Waxham's Arrival in Wyoming (2:25) -- Ethel's Accounts of Her School (1:22) -- John Love's Infatuation with Ethel (2:43) -- Correspondence Between Ethel & John (3:29) -- John's Persistence (2:44) -- John & Ethel's Marriage (1:05) -- The West in a Hurry (1:30) -- Credits: Ghost Dance: The West, a Film by Stephen Ives (2:38)…”
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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 West by Time-Life Video, WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)

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The anguish of snails : Native American folklore in the West by Toelken, Barre, 1935-2018

Contents: “…Kinetic patterns of performance : dance --…”
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May out west : poems of May Swenson by Swenson, May

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Elevating western American art : developing an institute in the cultural capital of the Rockies by Petrie Institute of Western American Art

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Songs of the American West

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Cowboy songs and other frontier ballads

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The Great Tribes Host Karen Stone by Arts and Entertainment Network, Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase

Contents: “…Chivington (3:13) -- Sand Creek Massacre (4:10) -- Massacre and Mutilation (2:40) -- Equestrian Culture (1:31) -- Cheyenne: The Beautiful People (3:22) -- Cheyenne Conflicts with Whites (3:09) -- Warfare Increases (1:12) -- White Intrusion into Buffalo Hunting Grounds (1:43) -- Fetterman Massacre (2:04) -- Peace Commission/Treaty of 1868 (1:40) -- Custer on Sacred Land (1:29) -- Gold Rush in Black Hills (0:41) -- Chief Sitting Bull: Renaissance Man (1:56) -- Battle of Little Big Horn (2:22) -- Little Big Horn and Sitting Bull's Exile (1:19) -- Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill (2:07) -- Ghost Dance: New Religion (1:16) -- Ghost Dance Among the Sioux (1:17) -- Death of Sitting Bull (1:43) -- Disaster Looms at Wounded Knee (0:54) -- Massacre at Wounded Knee (2:01) -- Civilized Cherokee Nation (2:31) -- Cherokee Rights (2:32) -- President Jackson vs. …”
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Saints, sinners, and sovereign citizens : the endless war over the West's public lands by Smith, John L., 1960-

Contents: “…Back Road to Gold Butte -- We Join the Revolution Already in Progress -- You Don't Need a Reason to Start a Revolution -- Ghost Dancing through Deseret -- Saddle Born -- The Senator from Searchlight -- When the Cows Come Home. . .to Roost -- Epilogue. …”

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West 1st Owl book ed. by Brown, Dee, 1908-2002

Contents: “…-- Last of the Apaches chiefs -- Dance of the ghosts -- Wounded Knee.…”

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee; an Indian history of the American West [1st ed.] by Brown, Dee, 1908-2002

Contents: “…-- The Last of the Apache Chiefs -- Dance of the Ghosts -- Wounded Knee.…”

Frontier regulars : the United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 by Utley, Robert M., 1929-2022

Contents: “…Return to the frontier -- The postwar army: command, staff, and line -- The problem of doctrine -- The army, Congress, and the people -- Weapons, uniforms, and equipment -- Army life on the border -- Fort Phil Kearny, 1866 -- Hancock's War, 1867 -- The Peace Commission of 1867 -- Operations on the southern plains, 1868-69 -- Beyond the plains, 1866-70 -- Grant's peace policy, 1869-74 -- The Red River War, 1874-75 -- Sitting Bull, 1870-76 -- The conquest of the Sioux, 1876-81 -- Nez Perce bid for freedom, 1877 -- Bannock, Paiute, Sheepeater, and Ute, 1878-79 -- Mexican border conflicts, 1870-81 -- Geronimo, 1881-86 -- Ghost dance, 1890-91.…”

Grinnell : America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West First edition. by Taliaferro, John, 1952-

Contents: “…Introduction: Evolution and extinction -- Audubon Park -- Member of the class -- The Yale Expedition -- A wild gallop -- The Black Hills -- A nation's park -- Age of surprises -- Thorough sportsman -- No tenderfoot he -- Dear partner -- The Audubon Society -- The rock climbers -- Fair chase -- Ghost Dance -- Sacred range -- Standing menace -- The ceded strip -- A plank -- Diverse voices -- Eclipse of memory -- The Alaska expedition -- Indians of to-day -- Winning of the West -- The captured woman -- Temporary sojourners -- Pulverizing engine -- Stuyvesant Square -- Break the old habit -- Undue destruction -- Fighting Cheyennes -- The National Park Service -- All this better work -- A complex life -- Melting rapidly -- A strong strand -- Epilogue: Do more good.…”

Wild West music of Buffalo Bill's Cowboy Band by Americus Brass Band

Contents: “…Baetens -- The two Bills' march and two step -- Buffalo Bill's farewell march and two step / William Sweeney -- Wyoming days -- On the warpath / Karl L. King -- Grass dance / Plenty Coups Singers from Pryor, Montana -- The passing of the red man -- Gallant Zouaves / Karl L. …”

Wagon tales 1st ed. by Andrew, Virginia Willey

Contents: “…Fulltime housekeeping -- VII. They danced all night -- VIII. Immigrant pioneers -- IX. …”

Treasury of the golden West by Choraliers

Contents: “…Tumblin' tumbleweeds -- Blue tail fly -- Cielito lindo -- Streets of Laredo -- He's got the whole world in His hands -- Tom Dooley -- Cool water -- Rovin' gambler -- Billy boy -- This land is your land -- Medley: Cheyenne ; Pony boy ; Nellie Bly -- Crawdad song -- Cowboy's camp meeting -- A man without a woman -- Beautiful, beckoning hands -- Roundup in the sky -- A hot time in the old town tonight -- Red River Valley -- On top of Old Smokey -- A roomful of roses -- Wait for the wagon -- Twilight on the trail -- Redwing -- Pick a bale of cotton -- The little brown church in the wildwood -- San Antonio rose -- Down in the valley -- I've been working on the railroad -- I wish I was a little Thugar Bun -- Old time religion -- What's more fun than a picnic party -- Adios muchachos -- Pearly gates -- Only a bird in a gilded cage -- Empty saddles -- Ghost riders in the sky -- Casey Jones -- Frankie and Johnny -- Little Liza Jane -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- I'm movin' on -- When the saints go marching in -- Seeing Nellie home -- Golden bells -- She'll be comin round the mountain when she comes -- Home on the range -- Cowboy's dance -- Careless love -- Full moon over Texas -- Good old mountain dew -- Cowboy's dream -- St. …”

The stories that shape us : contemporary women write about the West : an anthology 1st ed.

Contents: “…Civilize them with a stick / Mary Crow Dog -- How does the dance begin? / Judith Freeman -- Born fi' dead. The harder they fall / Laurie Gunst -- Bloodlines. …”