A Whirlwind Passed Through Our Country: Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance, Paperback - Rani-Henrik Andersson

Reducere. The inception of the Ghost Dance religion in 1890 marked a critical moment in Lakota history. Yet, because this movement alarmed government officia...

Reducere. On March 30, 1891--less than four months after the military suppression of the Lakota Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee, South Dakota--twenty-three Lakot...

Description"Although author Carole Maso follows the contours of fiction, style is everything in Ghost Dance, a strangely lovely and perplexing book...

DescriptionIn 1890, the United States government outlawed the Ghost Dance. The ceremony remained illegal until 1978. Why? Did the authorities fear ...

Reducere. An angel has returned to Paris. But is it the Angel of Music...or Death?Two years have passed since Christine fled the opera house, put the memorie...

Reducere. Our world has not always been this way. And our world may be different yet. Becky Montcrief embarks on a Ghost Dance to witness what the terrifying...

Reducere. The 1870 Ghost Dance was a significant but too often disregarded transformative historical movement with particular impact on the Native peoples of...

Reducere. NEVADA, 1872. Out of the merciless 40-Mile Desert, a stranger appears in the town of Golgotha, home to the blessed and the damned. He carries with ...

A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond is the extraordinary, unflinching account from sociologist Laurel Richardson of her love and care...

DescriptionIf we were all brave enough to resurrect the voices lost from our humanity, what would they say? Award-winning poet Quincy Troupe, spoke...

Reducere. In the 1860s and 1870s, the United States government forced most western Native Americans to settle on reservations. These ever-shrinking pieces of...

Reducere. The religious fervor known as the Ghost Dance movement was precipitated by the prophecies and teachings of a northern Paiute Indian named Wovoka (J...

Reducere. This collection of poems speaks to the grief and trauma associated with stillbirth and infertility. But more than that, these poems are concerned w...

Reducere. NEVADA, 1872. Out of the merciless 40-Mile Desert, a stranger appears in the town of Golgotha, home to the blessed and the damned. He carries with ...

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'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in plain sigh...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ruben AnderssonIllustration(s): 12 maps, 6 charts, 6 photosNumber of pages: 360Publication date...

In this journey of discovery, John Micklewright travels the slow way, on foot, on paths, tracks and byways from the Channel to the Alps - from the ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. Black Elk was one of the greatest religious thinkers produced by native North America, and the Sun Dance the central religious ritual of his Lakota...

This book is a complete guide to the Alishina Method which draws on classical and avant-garde Japanese dance traditions to offer a systemized appro...

War-torn deserts, jihadist killings, trucks weighted down with contraband and migrants--from the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images ...

Our Voices II: the DE-Colonial Project will showcase decolonizing projects which work to destable and disquiet colonial built environments. The lan...

How the Word is Passed is the living, breathing kind of history that is made unforgettable in the telling.

Instant #1 New York Times bestseller. "The Atlantic writer drafts a history of slavery in this country unlike anything you've read before" (Enterta...

Reducere. "We need this book." --Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to be an Anti-Racist The Atlantic staff writer and poet Clint Sm...

Publisher: Career PressAuthor(s): Larry FlaxmanNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 228 x 157 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softback...

DescriptionA poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women's suffering and resilience in Stalin's forced labor camps, diligently transcr...

Publisher: Faber Music LtdNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 1985Dimensions: 231 x 304 x 13Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul ...

Reducere. A sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries & oral histories to ...

Reducere. For nearly a century, the Lakota and Cheyenne had kept private their ancestors' history of Battle of Little Bighorn.Few non-Lakota knew the full st...

Hear the stories of Black British Christians in their own words.Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2007Dimensions:...