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Article: The 1870 Ghost Dance.(Book review)
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- Oregon Historical Quarterly
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- June 22, 2008
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THE 1870 GHOST DANCE
by Cora Dubois
edited by Thomas Buckley
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2007.
Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index.
378 pages. $19.95 paper.
Thomas Buckley, an accomplished anthropologist who has done excellent work on the Yuroks of northern California, has edited a reissue of Cora DuBois's classic 1938 study of the 1870 Ghost Dance. This text is well known to specialists in far western Indian history and Native spirituality, but neither DuBois nor her subject is as generally recognizable as James Mooney's work on the Ghost Dance of the late 1880s and 1890. Buckley ...