hominidmedia: people: wovoka
media introduction:
image credit: "Pauite Shaman" hosted at University of Michigan Library Online Exhibits: Great Native American Chiefs curated by Sherry Andrews and Michelle Jones. [umich.edu].
This is a National Archives photograph which is also available on wikimedia commons. Dee Brown calls this picture "Wovoka, the Paiute Messiah."
Louis Warren. "The Ghost Dance Movement." Munich: the Rachel Carson Center, 22 April 2014. [.youtube].
Warren on Wovoka:
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standard narrative:
John G. Neihardt. Black Elk Speaks: "The legendary "Book of Visions" of an American Indian. New York: Washington Square Press, 1972. (First published in 1932.) 195-202.
Niehardt on Wovoka:
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Dee Brown. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. 12, 415-416, 431-438.
Brown on Wovoka:
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Robert Burnette and John Koster. The Road to Wounded Knee. New York: Bantam Books, 1974. 148-149.
Burnette and Koster on Wovoka:
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David Stannard. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Stannard is a scholar of American Studies at U-HI. American Holocaust is an important frame for European-American contact as a two continent, four hundred year process. The famine and despair that informed Wovoka and the revivalist, millennial Ghost Dance movement came at the later stages of this genocide.
Michael Hittman, Don Lynch (eds.). Wovoka and the Ghost Dance. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Hittman and Lynch on Wovoka:
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James West Davidson, William E. Gienapp, Christine Leigh Heyrman, Mark H. Lytle, Michael B. Stoff. Nation of Nations: A concise Narrative of the American Republic. New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1996. 535. (First printing, 1990).
John Mack Faragher, Mary Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, Susan H. Armitage. Out of Many: A History of the American People. brief 4th ed. New Jersey: Pearson, 2004. 362. (First Published: 1995).
James A. Henretta, David Brody, Susan Ware, Marilynn S. Johnson. America's History Volume 2: Since 1865 Boston: Bedford, 2000. 521.
Robert A. Carter. Buffalo Bill Cody. New York: John Wiley & sons, 2000. 341-346.
Cartre on Wovoka:
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Jake Page. In the hands of the Great Spirit: the 20,000-year history of American Indians. New York: Free Press, 2003. 324-327.
Page on Wovoka:
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James West Davidson and Christine Leigh Heyrman. US: A Narrative History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 366.
David Treuer. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the present. New York: Riverhead Books, 2019. 4-5.
Treuer on Wovoka:
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primary/secondary source:
Dee Brown. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. 416.
Brown on Wovoka:
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media introduction:
image credit: "Pauite Shaman" hosted at University of Michigan Library Online Exhibits: Great Native American Chiefs curated by Sherry Andrews and Michelle Jones. [umich.edu].
This is a National Archives photograph which is also available on wikimedia commons. Dee Brown calls this picture "Wovoka, the Paiute Messiah."
Louis Warren. "The Ghost Dance Movement." Munich: the Rachel Carson Center, 22 April 2014. [.youtube].
Warren on Wovoka:
[load text]
standard narrative:
John G. Neihardt. Black Elk Speaks: "The legendary "Book of Visions" of an American Indian. New York: Washington Square Press, 1972. (First published in 1932.) 195-202.
Niehardt on Wovoka:
[load text]
Dee Brown. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. 12, 415-416, 431-438.
Brown on Wovoka:
[load text]
Robert Burnette and John Koster. The Road to Wounded Knee. New York: Bantam Books, 1974. 148-149.
Burnette and Koster on Wovoka:
[load text]
David Stannard. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Stannard is a scholar of American Studies at U-HI. American Holocaust is an important frame for European-American contact as a two continent, four hundred year process. The famine and despair that informed Wovoka and the revivalist, millennial Ghost Dance movement came at the later stages of this genocide.
Michael Hittman, Don Lynch (eds.). Wovoka and the Ghost Dance. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Hittman and Lynch on Wovoka:
[load text]
James West Davidson, William E. Gienapp, Christine Leigh Heyrman, Mark H. Lytle, Michael B. Stoff. Nation of Nations: A concise Narrative of the American Republic. New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1996. 535. (First printing, 1990).
John Mack Faragher, Mary Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, Susan H. Armitage. Out of Many: A History of the American People. brief 4th ed. New Jersey: Pearson, 2004. 362. (First Published: 1995).
James A. Henretta, David Brody, Susan Ware, Marilynn S. Johnson. America's History Volume 2: Since 1865 Boston: Bedford, 2000. 521.
Robert A. Carter. Buffalo Bill Cody. New York: John Wiley & sons, 2000. 341-346.
Cartre on Wovoka:
[load text]
Jake Page. In the hands of the Great Spirit: the 20,000-year history of American Indians. New York: Free Press, 2003. 324-327.
Page on Wovoka:
[load text]
James West Davidson and Christine Leigh Heyrman. US: A Narrative History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. 366.
David Treuer. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the present. New York: Riverhead Books, 2019. 4-5.
Treuer on Wovoka:
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primary/secondary source:
Dee Brown. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. 416.
Brown on Wovoka:
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