A History of the Ghost Dance Religious Movement

Guest: Louis S. Warren is the W Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at U.C. Davis. He is the author of the book author of Buffalo Bill’s America, American Environmental History, and most recently,  God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America.

Featured image: The Ghost Dance of 1889–1891 by the Oglala Lakota at Pine Ridge. Illustration by western artist Frederic Remington, 1890 on Wikipedia.

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