Authors: Michael Hittman, Don Lynch
ISBN-13: 9780803273085, ISBN-10: 0803273088
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: November 1997
Edition: EXPANDED
Michael Hittman is the author of Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute (Nebraska 1996). He is chair of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus.
The religious fervor known as the Ghost Dance movement was precipitated by the prophecies and teachings of a northern Paiute Indian named Wovoka (Jack Wilson). During a solar eclipse on New Year’s Day, 1889, Wovoka experienced a revelation that promised harmony, rebirth, and freedom for Native Americans through the repeated performance of the traditional Ghost Dance. In 1890 his message spread rapidly among tribes, developing an intensity that alarmed the federal government and ended in tragedy at Wounded Knee. While the Ghost Dance phenomenon is well known, never before has its founder received such full and authoritative treatment. Indispensable for understanding the prophet behind the messianic movement, Wovoka and the Ghost Dance addresses for the first time basic questions about his message and This expanded edition includes a new chapter and appendices covering sources on Wovoka discovered since the first edition, as well as a supplemental bibliography.
List of Illustrations | ||
Foreword | ||
Preface to the Expanded Edition | ||
Preface to the First Edition | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Ch. 1 | The Four Primary Sources | 7 |
Ch. 2 | Family | 27 |
Ch. 3 | The Early Years | 47 |
Ch. 4 | The 1890 Ghost Dance Religion | 63 |
Ch. 5 | Wovoka, the Man | 107 |
Ch. 6 | The Middle Years | 127 |
Ch. 7 | Wovoka's Prophecies | 161 |
Ch. 8 | The Final Years | 167 |
Ch. 9 | Author's Conclusion ... The Red and the White: Color Symbolism | 179 |
Ch. 10 | More about Wovoka | 195 |
App. A | The Chapman Interview | 231 |
App. B | Mooney's Visit with Wovoka | 237 |
App. C | The Dyer Manuscript | 247 |
App. D | Newspaper Accounts | 259 |
App. E | Government Letters and Reports | 269 |
App. F | The Messiah Letter | 297 |
App. G | Nine Ghost Dance Songs of the Northern Paiute | 299 |
App. H | Tibo'o Remember | 303 |
App. I | Anthropologists (and Others) on Wovoka | 313 |
App. J | The Prophet's Death | 325 |
App. K | "I Remember Jack" - Yerington Paiute Tribal Members | 331 |
App. L | Alice Wilson Vidovich, Andy Vidovich and Peg Wheat on Paul Bailey | 345 |
App. M | On Wovoka | 357 |
Bibliography | 360 |