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Article: The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game: Ghost Dance Revival and Ethnic Identity.(Book Review)
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The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game: Ghost Dance Revival and Ethnic Identity by Alexander Lesser. Introduction to Bison Books edition by Alice Beck Kehoe. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. Paper, 340 pp. ISBN Number 0-8032-7965-5.
Alexander Lesser was an anthropologist who lived and studied among the Pawnee in the late 1920s. He had contact with the last members of the tribe who hunted the buffalo. His interviews and observations concerning the Ghost Dance religion that was embraced by the Plains tribes in the early 1890s are recorded in this volume. The book's first portion traces the history of the Pawnee from 1803 and their journey of adjustment to ...