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.

Feature image: The Ghost Dance of 1889–1891, depicting the Oglala at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, by Frederic Remington in 1890 on Wikimedia Commons.

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