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.
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WHEN THE MEMBERS OF LEWIS and Clark's Corps of Discovery crossed the Continental Divide and descended into what is today Idaho's Lemhi Valley, they entered a complex and dynamic native world created by the ancestors of the modern Shoshone-Bannock people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
customary life ways, spirit tutor, equestrian lifestyle, ethnic reorganization, mounted buffalo hunters, prophet dance, camas prairie, reservation era, subsistence cycle, assimilation programs, band organization, ethnic renewal, overland emigrants, mounted bands, mixed bands, fur hunters, band divisions, mounted groups, single reservation, first white women, basin peoples, reservation life, annuity goods, prophetic terms, white observers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Hall, Snake River, Fort Bridger, Wind River, Bannock War, American Indian, Buffalo Horn, Nez Percés, United States, Horn Chief, Northern Paiutes, Captain Jim, Walker River, Great Basin, Lemhi Valley, Duck Valley, Captain Sam, Columbia Plateau, Saint Louis, James Mooney, Prophet Dance, Soda Springs, Wounded Knee, Eastern Shoshones, Bannock Indians New!
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WHEN THE MEMBERS OF LEWIS and Clark's Corps of Discovery crossed the Continental Divide and descended into what is today Idaho's Lemhi Valley, they entered a complex and dynamic native world created by the ancestors of the modern Shoshone-Bannock people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
customary life ways, spirit tutor, equestrian lifestyle, ethnic reorganization, mounted buffalo hunters, prophet dance, camas prairie, reservation era, subsistence cycle, assimilation programs, band organization, ethnic renewal, overland emigrants, mounted bands, mixed bands, fur hunters, band divisions, mounted groups, single reservation, first white women, basin peoples, reservation life, annuity goods, prophetic terms, white observers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Hall, Snake River, Fort Bridger, Wind River, Bannock War, American Indian, Buffalo Horn, Nez Percés, United States, Horn Chief, Northern Paiutes, Captain Jim, Walker River, Great Basin, Lemhi Valley, Duck Valley, Captain Sam, Columbia Plateau, Saint Louis, James Mooney, Prophet Dance, Soda Springs, Wounded Knee, Eastern Shoshones, Bannock Indians New!
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