We Shall Live Again The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as Demographic Revitalization

Name: We Shall Live Again The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as Demographic Revitalization
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ISBN: 9780521034524

ISBN-10: 0521034523

ISBN-13: 9780521034524

Edition: N/A

Authors: Russell Thornton, Ernest Q. Campbell

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This study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North American Indians offers an innovative theory about why these movements arose when they did. Emphasizing the demographic situation of American Indians prior to the movements, Professor Thornton argues that the Ghost Dances were deliberate efforts to accomplish a demographic revitalization of American Indians following their virtual collapse. By joining the movements, he contends, tribes sought to assure survival by increasing their numbers through returning the dead to life. Thornton supports this thesis empirically by closely examining the historical context of the two movements and by assessing tribal participation in them,…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.24" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements



Prior scholarship on the Ghost Dance movements



Hypothesis of demographic revitalization



Depopulation and the Ghost Dance movements



Ghost Dance participation and depopulation



Participation and population recovery



A summary, a conclusion, some implications


Technical appendixes


References


Index