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God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America

by Louis Warren

The definitive account of the Ghost Dance religion, which led to the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 Winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

480

ISBN

9780465015023