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God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America

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A leading historian of the American West writes the definitive account of the iconic Ghost Dance religion, which led to the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890
In 1890, on Indian reservations around the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an try to suppress this new faith, the USA Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren’s God’s Red Son offers a startling new view of the religion referred to as the Ghost Dance, from its origins within the visions of a Northern Paiute named Wovoka to the tragedy in South Dakota. To nowadays, the Ghost Dance remains widely mischaracterized as a primitive and failed effort by Indian militants to withstand American conquest and return to traditional ways. If truth be told, followers of the Ghost Dance sought to thrive in up to date The us by working for wages, farming the land, and educating their children, tenets that helped the religion endure for decades after Wounded Knee. God’s Red Son powerfully reveals how Ghost Dance teachings helped Indians retain their identity and reshape the up to date world.

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