The Ghost Dance
- ISBN-10
- 157215201X
- ISBN-13
- 9781572152014
- Series
- The Ghost Dance
- Category
- History / United States / General
- Pages
- 498
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- JG Press
- Author
- James Mooney
Description
First published a century ago, The Ghost Dance is a unique first-hand account of a messianic movement against white subjugation that arose among Native Americans of the West and the Plains in the latter part of the 19th-century.
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