ghost dance

A biography of the Paiute messiah whose vision of a land free from white domination led to the Ghost Dance religion and was ultimately shattered by the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Originally published as Part 2 of the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1892-93, by the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., in 1896.

Great-grandmother Tandy tells Lacey about a quilt given to their ancestor, Daniel, who, upset by the changes after his grandfather's death, leaves Illinois for South Dakota in 1891 to find his father, and learns about the Sioux Ghost Dance first-hand.

Explores the role the Teton Indians played in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; examines the meaning of the Ghost Dance and the United States military's suppression of the ritual; and includes five of Short Bull's narratives.

A narrative of the origins and meaning of the Native American Indian ghost dance.