We Shall Live Again: The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements as demographic revitalization; ( Rose Monograph series ).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, xiv + 96pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver on spine & front board. Map. Bibliography & index. A scholarly examination of the Native American Ghost Dance movements of 1870 and 1890 which the author believed to be an effort at revitalizing native societies that had been devastated by contact with Europeans. The dance itself was a revived form an ancient ritual, and its exponents believed that it would "return the dead to life" and reunite them with the living, bringin peace and harmony to the native tribes. NOTE: this is the first edition: properly bound (sewn) and printed, not the shoddy POD reprint. Faint offsetting to free endpapers, else a tight, clean near Fine copy (no dust jacket issued?). Item #29837
ISBN: 9780521328944
Price: $50.00