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- Title
Wage Work in the Sacred Circle: The Ghost Dance as Modern Religion.
- Authors
Warren, Louis S.
- Abstract
The Ghost Dance is commonly understood as a backward-looking rejection of modern life. Yet the teachings of the religion often incorporated exhortations to wage labor and other instructions for good living in the reservation era as necessary measures to precipitate the millennium. In reaching backward and forward simultaneously, the Ghost Dance helped resolve contradictions of Indian identity in the post-conquest world.
- Subjects
GHOST dance; EMPLOYMENT of Native Americans; HISTORY of labor; LAKOTA (North American people); NATIVE American-White relations; PAIUTE (North American people); NINETEENTH century; HISTORY; RELIGION; NATIVE American history; NATIVE American rites &; ceremonies; DANCE; UNITED States history
- Publication
Western Historical Quarterly, 2015, Vol 46, Issue 2, p141
- ISSN
0043-3810
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/westhistquar.46.2.0141