Article: Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century.(Book review)

Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century. By Gregory E. Smoak. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 289. $44.95.)

The author of this book, in his revised dissertation, has contributed to the field of Native American history in two ways. First, he provides an in-depth history of two understudied tribes, the Shoshone and Bannock of Idaho. Second, within this fairly traditional chronological history, Gregory E. Smoak uses ethnohistorical methodology to investigate the construction of ethnic and racial identity among the Shoshone-Bannock peoples. Throughout the book, prophetic ...

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