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MOONEY, JAMES - The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890

Title: The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
Description: Lincoln: A Bison Book / University of Nebraska Press, 1991. Softcover. ISBN: 0803281773. A 1991 softcover reprint of James Mooney's 1896 description of the rapidly-spreading phenomenon of the Ghost Dance among various Indian tribes in the American West. The Ghost Dance raised fears of an Indian outbreak, culminating in the military occupation & massacre of the Sioux at Wounded Knee. With plenty of black & white illustrations and maps. Includes a new introduction by Raymone J. DeMallie. --- In stiff white wraps with color image of Arapahoe Ghost Dance shirt to front cover. --- With a strip of light soiling to lower cover edges, otherwise a sound, tightly-bound, unmarked copy.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xxvi, 1136 pages. Very Good+ .

Keywords: 0803281773 >>History of Colorado & the Old West

Price: US$ 24.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 85304