A Whirlwind Passed Through Our Country: Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance

A Whirlwind Passed Through Our Country: Lakota Voices of the Ghost DanceThe inception of the Ghost Dance religion in 1890 marked a critical moment in Lakota history. Yet, because this movement alarmed government officials, culminating in the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee of 250 Lakota men, women, and children, historical accounts have most often described the Ghost Dance from the perspective of the white Americans who opposed it. In A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country, historian Rani Henrik Andersson instead gives

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which resulted in the deaths of more than four hundred Ojibwe people

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Through autobiography and interviews

Through deliberate suppression and cultural destruction

giving us an accessible entry point into a vital facet of Indian history

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Choctaw storyteller Tim Tingle blends songs

and landscapes bring vibrancy and warmth to this powerful story

Currently an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Twin brothers Chickadee and Makoons have spent every day side by side and have done everything together since they were born—until the day the unthinkable happens and the brothers are separated