Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost Dance among tribes of the western United States in the early 1890s, James Mooney set out to describe and understand

Classic of American anthropology explores messianic cult behind Indian resistance, from Pontiac to the 1890s. Extremely detailed and thorough. Originally publis

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 American