Ghost Dance

The origins of the ghost dance, its healing aspects, and increased frequency of the ceremony.

Paper attempts to reconstruct the ceremony in its homeland location with the assistance of the Wier Notes (WN) and the Dangberg Composition Notebook (DCN).

Master's Thesis submitted in 1993 to the Institut Charles V of the University of Paris VII. Content includes: Grant's Peace Policy and Its Developments, 1869-1879; The "Social Gospel", 1879-1897; Allotment and Resistance; A "Progressive Era" for the American Indians, 1897-1917; and Education and Health.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of South Dakota, 2011.

Perspective of the Peyote religion.

English Thesis (M.A.)--Villanova University, 2008.

Discusses how the founder of Carlisle Indian Industrial School manipulated coverage of the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee to further his own agenda of eliminating the competition in the Catholic contract schools.

An examination of the author's writings about the loss of land and access to food due to the encroachments of cattle ranchers and the impact it had on the Paiute people.

Comments on the similarities and the differences between various ceremonies and the blending of the past with the present.

Documentation from 1917 and a picture of Jack Wilson.

Discusses the circumstances that gave rise to the Ghost Dance and its implications for Shawnee society.

Analyzes the use of Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee references in Alexie's works. Chapter 1 from Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush.

Home Economics Thesis (M.Sc.)--Montana State University, 1972.

Drama Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 1979.

Consists of an interview about the origin of the Pigeon Society of the Blood Indians as well as the Ghost Dance and Big Smoke ceremonies.

Literature Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2005.

Explores the Ghost Dance social and religious movement and its prophet Wovoka. The Ghost Dance was created during times of hardships for the American Indigenous people in hopes of a return to happier times.

Focuses on when this dance occurred, and whether it holds significance of a spiritual nature.

Report includes the following paper: The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 by James Mooney

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2001.

Comparison of Paiute Ghost Dance with that of the Sioux.

Description of the "ghost dance" as practised by the Yurok and Karok peoples of the lower Klamath River in California

Discusses Cherokee ghost dances as religious revivals from 1811 to 1867.

Uses a model to study the origin, spread and changes to the Ghost Dance.

Consists of an interview that tells the story of the origin of the Ghost Dance as well as the story of the acquisition of the Shaggy Pipe.

Two poems.

Discusses artists works in the exhibition "Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art" as part of a wider movement to define Indigenous style.

Examines five feature films, with a preoccupation on mortality, written and directed by Native Americans. Presented at the Tenth Native American Symposium, November 14-15, 2013. Chapter from Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs edited by Mark B. Spencer.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Utah, 1999.

Book review of: Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century by Gregory E. Smoak.

Book review of: Ghost Dances and Identity by Gregory E. Smoak.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--National University of Ireland, Galway, 2013.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 1997.

Book review of: Indian Dances of North America by Reginald Laubin and Gladys Laubin.

Book review of: Indian healing by Wolfgang G. Jilek. Scroll down to page 97 to read review.

Book review of: Indigenous Symbols and Practices in the Catholic Church edited by Kathleen J. Martin. Review located by scrolling to page 197.

Case involved an initiation ceremony for spirit dancing. Defendants claimed that their inherent right to spirit dance nullified the common law dealing with assault, battery and false imprisonment.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arkansas, 2015.

A history of the US Bureau of Indian Affairs' investigation into the Ghost Dance prophet Jack Wilson in the late eighteenth century. The investigation was filled with miscommunication, disinterest and confusion regarding the Ghost Dance and the identity of the "Indian Messiah".

An interview explaining the origins of the Ghost dance, the Blacktail Deer dance, and the Beaver Bundle.

Book review of: The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 by Rani-Henrik Andersson. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 87.

Performance Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 1990.

Liberal Arts Thesis (Ph.D.)--Texas Christian University, 2013.