The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee with John R

with John R

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to ward off malevolent spirits and to remind parishioners of the evil beyond the church doors

The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee with John RImmediately following the massacre of Wounded Knee (December 29, 1890), the well known anthropologist James Mooney, under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Smithsonian, investigated the incident. His interest was primarily in the Indian background to the uprising. Admitting that the Indians had been generally overpowered by the Whites, what led the Indians to think they stood a chance against White arms? His answer was