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- Title
Ghost Dancing and the Iron Horse.
- Abstract
The article discusses the relationship between Native American communities and railroad technologies in the 19th-century U.S. According to the author, Native American groups resisted the expansion of railroads through their territories at first, then found ways to assimilate railroad technology in pursuit of their cultural survival. Particular focus is given to the Northern Paiute people of the Walker River Indian Reservation in Nevada, and the Oglala Sioux people of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. It is suggested that these groups used the railroad to spread the Ghost Dance cultural revitalization movement. Topics discussed include the Paiute prophet Wovoka and Native American responses to westward expansionism.
- Subjects
UNITED States; 19TH century Native American history; RAILROADS &; society; HISTORY of railroads; RAILROADS; GHOST dance; NATIVE Americans -- Attitudes; NATIVE Americans; NATIVE American reservations; TERRITORIAL expansion of the United States; PAIUTE (North American people); OGLALA Lakota (North American people); WOVOKA, ca. 1856-1932; TRANSPORTATION
- Publication
Technology & Culture, 2011, Vol 52, Issue 3, p574
- ISSN
0040-165X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/tech.2011.0089