Ghost Dance Bibliography

Aberle, David F. “The Prophet Dance and Reactions to White Contact.” Southwestern

Journal of Anthropology 15 (1959): 74-83.

Andrist, Ralph K. The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indian. New York:

Macmillan, 1993.

Bagley, Will. “Feast, Dance Bring Sioux, Utes Together.” Salt Lake Tribune 24 Jun.

2001: B1.

Bailey, Paul Dayton. Ghost Dance Messiah. New York: Tower, 1970.

- - -. Wovoka, the Indian Messiah. Los Angeles, CA: Westernlore P, 1957.

Barney, Garold D. Mormons, Indians and the Ghost Dance Religion of 1890. U P of

America, 1986.

Beasley, Jr., Conger. We Are a People in This World: The Lakota Sioux and the

Massacre at Wounded Knee. Fayetteville, AR: U of Arkansas P, 1995.

Bohnlein, Ivy B. Wounded Knee in 1891 and 1973: Prophets, Protest, and a Century of

Sioux Resistance. Tucson, AZ: U of Arizona, 1998.

Bonham, Barbara. The Battle of Wounded Knee: The Ghost Dance Uprising. Chicago:

Reilly, 1970.

Boring, Mel. Wovoka. Minneapolis, MN: Dillon P, 1981.

Bourke, John G. “The Indian Messiah.” Letter to the Editor. The Nation 4 Dec. 1890:

439-440.

Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.

New York: Holt, 1970.

- - -. “The Ghost Dance and the Battle of Wounded Knee.” American History Illustrated

1 (Dec. 1966): 4-17.

Brown, Donald N. “The Ghost Dance Religion among the Oklahoma Cheyenne.”

Chronicles of Oklahoma 30.4 (Win. 1952-3): 408-16. 

Capeci, Jr., Dominic J., and Jack C. Knight. “Reactions to Colonialism: The North

American Ghost Dance and East African Maji-Maji Rebellions.” The Historian

52.4 (Aug. 1990): 584-601.

Coleman, William S.E. Voices of Wounded Knee. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2000.

Conger, Jr., Beasley. We Are a People in This World: The Lakota Sioux and the

Massacre at Wounded Knee. Fayetteville, AR: U of Arkansas P, 1995.

Danker, Donald F. “The Wounded Knee Interviews of Eli S. Ricker.” Nebraska

History 62.2 (1981): 151-243.

Deloria, Ella. “The Sun Dance of the Oglala Sioux.” Journal of American Folklore 42

(1929): 354-413.

- - -. “Emmy Valandry’s Story: I Am Admitted to the Hunka.” MS X 8.4a, Boas

Collection. Philadelphia: Amer. Philos. Soc., 1937.

- - -. “Emmy Valandry’s Story: I Cut the Sacred Pole.” MS X 8.4a, Boas

Collection. Philadelphia: Amer. Philos. Soc., 1937.

- - -. “Emmy Valandry’s Story: I See the Ghost Dance.” MS X 8.4a, Boas

Collection. Philadelphia: Amer. Philos. Soc., 1937.

- - -. Waterlily. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1988.

Densmore, Frances. Teton Sioux Music. 1918. Rpt. New York: DaCapo, 1972.

DeMallie, Raymond J. “The Lakota Ghost Dance: An Ethnohistorical Account” Pacific

Historical Review 51 (Nov. 1982): 385-405. Rpt. in Religion in American

History: A Reader. Eds. Jon Butler and Harry S. Stout. New York: Oxford U P,

1998), 256-71.

- - -. The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk’s Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt. Lincoln,

NE: U of Nebraska P, 1984.

Dobyns, Henry F., and Robert C. Euler. The Ghost Dance of 1882. Prescott, AZ: Prescott

Coll. P, 1967.

DuBois, Cora. 1870 Ghost Dance. 1939. Berkeley, CA: U of California P. Rpt. Salinas,

CA: Coyote P, 198?.

Eastman, Charles. From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography

of an Indian. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1977.

Eastman, Elaine Goodale. Sister to the Sioux: The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman

1885-91. Ed. Kay Graber. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1978.

- - -. “The Ghost Dance War and Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890-91.” Nebraska

History 26 (1945): 26-42.

Elliott, Michael A. “Ethnography, Reform, and the Problem of the Real: James Mooney’s

Ghost-Dance Religion.” American Quarterly 50.2 (1998): 201-233.

“Fighting at Pine Ridge.” The New York Tribune 1 Jan. 1891: 1.

“A Fight with the Hostiles.” The New York Times 30 Dec. 1890: 1.

Flood, Renee Sansom. Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota. Cambridge,

MA: Da Capo P, 1998.

Gayton, A.H. “The Ghost Dance of 1870 in South-Central California.” Univ. Cal. Pub. in

Amer. Arch. and Ethn. 28. 3 (1930): 57-82.

Gonzalez, Mario, and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. The Politics of Hallowed Ground: Wounded

Knee and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty. Champaign, IL: U of Illinois P,

1999.

Greene, Jerome A. “The Sioux Land Commission of 1889: Prelude to Wounded Knee.”

South Dakota History (1970/71) 1: 41-72.

Hittman, Michael. “The 1870 Ghost Dance at the Walker River Reservation: A

Reconstruction.” Ethnohistory 20 (1973): 247-278.

- - -. “Ghost Dances, Disillusionment, and Opiate Addiction: An

Ethnohistory of Smith and Mason Valley.” Ann Arbor, MI: U Microfilms, 1973.

- - -. Wovoka and the Ghost Dance. Ed. Don Lynch. Lincoln, NE: U of

Nebraska P, 1997.

Huffstetler, Edward. “Spirit Armies and Ghost Dancers: The Dialogic Nature of

American Indian Resistance.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 14.4 (Win.

2002): 1-17.

“The Indian Massacre.” The New York Times 31 Dec. 1890: 4.

Jensen, Richard E., R. Eli Paul, and John E. Carter. Eyewitness at Wounded Knee.

Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1991.

Jorgensen, Joseph. “Ghost Dance, Bear Dance, and Sun Dance," in Handbook of North

American Indians, vol. 2, “The Great Basin.” Edited by Warren L. D'Azevedo.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution P, 1986.

Kehoe, Alice B. The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization. New York: Holt,

1989.

- - -. “The Ghost Dance Religion.” In Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of

Religion. David Hicks. New York: McGraw, 2001.

- - -. “On ‘Ghost Dance Movements.’” Ethnohistory 28.1 (Win. 1991): 73-74.

Kelly, William Fitch, and Pierre Bovis, eds. Pine Ridge 1890: An Eye Witness Account

of the Events Surrounding the Fighting at Wounded Knee. San Francisco, CA:

Pierre, 1971.

Kerstetter, Todd. “Spin Doctors at Santee: Missionaries and the Dakota-Language

Reporting of the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee.” Western Historical Quarterly

18:1 (1997): 45-67.

Kolbenschlag, George. A Whirlwind Passes: News Correspondents and the Sioux Indian

Disturbances of 1890-1891. Vermillion, SD: U of South Dakota P, 1990.

Kracht, Benjamin R. “The Kiowa Ghost Dance, 1894-1916: An Unheralded

Revitalization Movement.” Ethnohistory 39.4 (Fal. 1992): 123-165.

La Barre, [Raoul] Weston. The Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion. New York: Dell,

1972.

Lanternari, Vittorio. The Religions of the Oppressed: A Study of Modern Messianic

Cults. New York: Knopf, 1963.

“The Last of Sitting Bull.” The New York Times 16 Dec. 1890: 1.

Lee, Robert. “Messiah Craze at Wounded Knee.” The Wi-iyohi 9 (1955): 1-12.

Lesser, Alexander. “The Cultural Significance of the Ghost Dance.” American

Anthropologist 35 (1933): 108-15.

- - -. The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game: Ghost Dance Revival and Ethnic Identity.

New York: Columbia U P, 1933.

Logan, Brad. “The Ghost Dance Among the Piute: An Ethnohistorical View of the

Documentary Evidence 1889-1893.” Ethnohistory 27.3 [Sum. 1980]: 267-288.

Macgregor, Gordon. Warriors Without Weapons: A Study of the Society and Personality

Development of the Pine Ridge Sioux. Chicago: Chicago P, 1946.

Mails, Thomas. Sundancing at Rosebud and Pine Ridge. Sioux Falls, SD: Augustana

Coll., 1978.

Martin, Joel W. “Before and Beyond the Sioux Ghost Dance: Native American Prophetic

Movements and the Study of Religion.” Journal of the American Academy of

Religion 59 (Win. 1991): 677-701.

Mattes, Merrill J. “The Enigma of Wounded Knee.” Plains Anthropologist 5.9 (1960): 1-

11.

McGregor, James Herman. The Wounded Knee Massacre from the Viewpoint of the

Sioux. Baltimore: Wirth, 1940.

McLoughlin, William G. The Cherokee Ghost Dance, and Other Essays on the

Southeastern Indians, 1789-1861. Mercer U P, 1984.

- - -. “Ghost Dance Movements: Some Thoughts on Definition Based on Cherokee

History.” Ethnohistory 37.1 (Win. 1990): 25-44.

“The Messiah and His Prophet.” The New York Times 30 Nov. 1890.

Metcalf, George. “Two Relics of the Wounded Knee Massacre.” Museum of the Fur

Trade Quarterly 2.4 (1966): 1-4.

Miller, David Humphreys. Ghost Dance. New York: Duell,1959. Rpt. Lincoln, NE:

U of Nebraska P, 1985.

Mohrbacher, B. C. “The Whole Word Is Coming: The 1890 Ghost Dance Movement as

Utopia.” Utopian Studies 7.1 (1996): 75-85.

Mooney, James. The Ghost-Dance Religion and The Sioux Outbreak of 1890. (Fourteenth

Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian

Institution 1892-1893, Part 2.) Washington, DC: GPO, 1896. Rpt. Chicago: U

of Chicago P, 1965. Rpt. as The Ghost Dance Religion and Wounded Knee. New

York: Dover, 1973.

- - -. “A Message from the Ghost-Dance Messiah.” New England Review 18 (Sum. 1997):

72-6.

Morris, Richard, and Philip Wander. “Native American Rhetoric: Dancing in the

Shadows of the Ghost Dance.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 76 (1990): 164-191.

Moses, L.G. “‘The Father Tells Me So!’ Wovoka: The Ghost Dance Prophet.” The

American Indian Quarterly 9.2 (Sum. 1985): 335-51.

Neihardt, John G. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Men of the Oglala

Sioux. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1961.

Ortiz, Roxanne. “Wounded Knee 1890 to Wounded Knee 1973: A Study in United States

Colonialism.” The Journal of Ethnic Studies 8.2 (1980): 1-15.

Osterreich, Shelley A. The American Indian Ghost Dance, 1870 and 1890: An Annotated

Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1991.

Overholt, Thomas W. “The Ghost Dance of 1890 and the Nature of the Prophetic

Process.” Ethnohistory 21 (1974): 37-63.

Parker, Z.A. “The Ghost Dance at Pine Ridge.” New York Evening Post, 18 Apr. 1891.

Powers, William K. Voices from the Spirit World. Kendall Park, NJ: Lakota, 1990.

- - -, and Marla N. Testimony to Wounded Knee: A Comprehensive Bibliography.

Kendall Park, NJ: Lakota, 1994.

“The Red Indians Ghost Dance.” The [London] Times 9 Dec. 1890.

Rice, Julian. Ella Deloria’s Iron Hawk. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico Press, 1993.

Prucha, Francis Paul, ed. Americanizing the American Indians: Writings by the “Friends

of the Indian” 1880-1900. Lincoln, NE: U Nebraska P, 1978.

Sayer, John William. Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials. Cambridge,

MA: Harvard UP, 1997.

Schiffman, Robert A., and Stephen B. Andrews. “Pictographs of the Ghost Dance

Movements of 1870 and 1890.” In Pictographs of the Coso Region: Analysis and

Interpretation of the Coso Painted Style. Ed. Robert A. Schiffman. Bakersfield

Coll. Publications in Archaeology 2, 1982: 79-85.

Seymour, Forrest W. Sitanka: The Full Story of Wounded Knee. Hanover, MA:

Christopher, 1981.

Shermer, Michael. “God and the Ghost Dance.” Skeptic 5.3 (1997): 82-90.

Smith, Carlton. Coyote Kills John Wayne: Postmodernism and Contemporary Fictions of

the Transcultural Frontier. Hanover: UP New England, 2000.

Smith, Rex A. Moon of Popping Trees. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1981.

Smoak, Gregory E. Ghost Dances and Identity: American Indian Ethnogenesis, Racial

Identity, and Prophetic Religion in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: U of

California P, 2002.

- - -. “The Mormons and the Ghost Dance of 1890.” South Dakota History 16 (Fall

1986): 269-294.

Spier, Leslie. “The Prophet Dance of the Northwest and Its Derivations: The Source of

the Ghost Dance.” U of California. General Series in Anthropology I, n. 74, 1935.

Standing Bear, Luther. My People the Sioux. Boston/New York: Houghton, 1928.

Steinmetz, Paul B., S.J. Pipe, Bible, and Peyote Among the Oglala Lakota: A Study in

Religious Identity. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1990.

Stoffle, Richard W., et al. “Ghost Dancing the Grand Canyon.” Current Anthropology

41(2000): 11-38.

Streissguth, Tom. Wounded Knee 1890. New York: Library of Congress, 1998.

Thornton, Russell. “We Shall Live Again: The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements

as Demographic Revitalization.” New York: Cambridge UP, 1986.

Utley, Robert M. The Last Days of the Sioux Nation. New Haven/London: Yale U P,

1963.

Utter, Jack. Wounded Knee and the Ghost Dance Tragedy. Lake Ann, MI:

Ntl. Woodlands Pub., 1991.

Vander, Judith. Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: Poetry Songs and Great Basin Context.

Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1997.

Vizenor, Gerald. “Native American Indian Literature: Critical Metaphors of the Ghost

Dance.” World Literature 66.2 (Spr. 1992):.

Walcott, Derek. Walker and The Ghost Dance. New York: Farrar, 2002.

Walker, James R. The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of the

Teton Dakota. 1917. Rpt. New York: AMS P, 1979.

- - -. Lakota Belief and Ritual. Eds. Raymond J. DeMallie and Elaine A. Jahner. Lincoln,

NE: U of Nebraska P, 1980.

Wilson, George. “The Sioux War.” Letter to the Editor. The Nation 8 Jan. 1891: 29-30.