Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas: The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity

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Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization, Religious Revitalization a number of the Kiowas examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual within the final decades of the nineteenth century. All the way through the height of the horse-and-bison culture, Kiowa beliefs were founded within the notion of daudau, a force permeating the universe that used to be accessible through vision quests. Following the end of the Southern Plains wars in 1875, the Kiowas were confined throughout the boundaries of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache (Plains Apache) Reservation. As wards of the government, they witnessed the extinction of the bison herds, which led to the collapse of the Sun Dance by 1890. Though prophet movements within the 1880s had failed to restore the bison, other religions emerged to fill the void left by the lack of the Sun Dance. Kiowas now sought daudau through the Ghost Dance, Christianity, and the Peyote religion. 
Religious Revitalization a number of the Kiowas examines the historical and sociocultural conditions that spawned the brand new religions that arrived in Kiowa country on the end of the nineteenth century, in addition to Native and non-Native reactions to them. A thorough examination of these sources reveals how resilient and adaptable the Kiowas were within the face of cultural genocide between 1883 and 1933. Despite the fact that the prophet movements and the Ghost Dance were short-lived, Christianity and the Native American Church have persevered into the twenty-first century. Benjamin R. Kracht shows how Kiowa traditions and spirituality were amalgamated into the brand new religions, creating a distinctive Kiowa identity.
 

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