Ghost Dancing
Title | Ghost Dancing PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Daniels |
Publisher | Stewart, Tabori, & Chang |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Art |
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Hailed as many Native Americans as a messenger for the Indian people, JD Challenger's art teaches us about the symbols and ceremonies of the Native American religious movement known as the Ghost Dance. In art and prose, GHOST DANCING celebrates the beauty and power of the religion's visions, dreams, and symbols. 75 color images. 50 b&w illustrations.
Ghost Dancing the Law
Title | Ghost Dancing the Law PDF eBook |
Author | John William Sayer |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674001848 |
This study of the Wounded Knee trials demonstrates the impact that legal institutions and the media have on political dissent. Sayer draws on court records, news reports, and interviews to show how both the defense and the prosecution had to respond continually to legal constraints, media coverage, and political events outside the courtroom.
Ghost Dance in Berlin
Title | Ghost Dance in Berlin PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Wortsman |
Publisher | Travelers' Tales |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2013-01-15 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1609520793 |
Every great city is a restless work in progress, but nowhere is the urban impulse more in flux than in Berlin, that sprawling metropolis located on the fault line of history. A short-lived fever-dream of modernity in the Roaring Twenties, redubbed Germania and primped up into the megalomaniac fantasy of a Thousand-Year Reichstadt in the Thirties, reduced in 1945 to a divided rubble heap, subsequently revived in a schizoid state of post-World War II duality, and reunited in 1989 when the wall came tumbling down — Berlin has since been reborn yet again as the hipster hub of the 21st century. This book is a hopscotch tour in time and space. Part memoir, part travelogue, Ghost Dance in Berlin is an unlikely declaration of love, as much to a place as to a state of mind, by the American-born son of German-speaking Jewish refugees. Peter Wortsman imagines the parallel celebratory haunting of two sets of ghosts, those of the exiled erstwhile owners, a Jewish banker and his family, and those of the Führer’s Minister of Finance and his entourage, who took over title, while in another villa across the lake another gaggle of ghosts is busy planning the Final Solution.
Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit
Title | Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit PDF eBook |
Author | Rodger Lyle Brown |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2010-02-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781604738902 |
A look into deep communal meanings that emerge is small towns stage their annual festivals.
The Ghost Dance
Title | The Ghost Dance PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Beck Kehoe |
Publisher | Waveland Press |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2006-06-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1478609249 |
In this fascinating ethnohistorical case study of North American Indians, the Ghost Dance religion is the backbone for Kehoes exploration of significant aspects of American Indian life and her quest to learn why some theories become popular. In Part 1, she combines knowledge gained from her firsthand experiences living among and speaking with Indian elders with a careful analysis of historical accounts, providing a succinct yet insightful look at people, events, and institutions from the 1800s to the present. She clarifies unique and complex relationships among Indian peoples and dispels many of the false pretenses promoted by United States agencies over two centuries. In Part 2, Kehoe surveys some of the theories used to analyze the events described in Part 1, allowing readers to see how theories develop, to think critically about various perspectives, and to draw their own conclusions. Kehoes gripping presentation and analysis pave the way for just and constructive Indian-White relations.
The Ghost Dance
Title | The Ghost Dance PDF eBook |
Author | James Mooney |
Publisher | World Publications (MA) |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
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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.
Ghost Dancing
Title | Ghost Dancing PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Linzer |
Publisher | Picador |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2013-09-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466852984 |
American Book Award Winner A linked collection of stories about the lives of one Native American family in Washington state and Oklahoma Story by graceful story, Ghost Dancing reveals the evolving worlds of Jimmy One Rock, his wife Mary, and their family as they struggle together on a decaying reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Alternating between Washington state and Jimmy's childhood on an Oklahoma reservation, these stories link past and present through memory, myth, ceremony, and a sly humor that undercuts the reverence of outsiders. In spare yet rich language, Anna Linzer creates a memorable portrait of contemporary Native American life. Here is a collection as open and honest and authentic as the characters that it documents, appealing and accessible, as bittersweet as it is lovely. Readers of Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and N. Scott Momaday will discover these stories with pleasure.