The ghost dance remains an important part of *Native North American cultural history in part because of the savage butchery of the United States Army on the battlefield at Wounded Knee in 1890. This was the subject of a classic monograph by James...

GHOST DANCE. The Ghost Dance was the major revivalist movement among nineteenth-century North American Indians. Dating from about 1870, it had its culmination in the 1890–1891 "messiah craze" of the Plains, which caused the last...

Noted in historical accounts as the Ghost Dance of 1890, the Ghost Dance was a religious movement incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. The traditional ritual used in the Ghost Dance, the circle dance, has been used by many Native...

Hauntology Creeps into Earshot WHAT IS HAUNTOLOGY? To begin with, it comes from a book, Specters of Marx, by the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida. As explained to me by culture theorist Steven Shaviro, Derrida's "neologism 'hantologie'" is "pronounced almost identically to 'ontologie'...

Mark T. Sullivan. Avon, $24 (352p) ISBN 0-380-97429-0 Like his most recent (and most successful) thriller, The Purification Ceremony, Sullivan's fourth novel unfolds in rural America and features a strong Native American theme. There the resemblance ends, for there's little of Purification's...

You have to travel back in time to get from the nearest town to the chipped and wind-whipped little stone face that peers out over the Missouri River and the endless plains beyond.The drive from Mobridge across the river takes you from the Central Time...