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Ghost Dances and Identity

其他書名	Ethnogenesis and Racial Identity Among Shoshones and Bannocks in the Nineteenth Century
出版	Department of History, University of Utah, 1999
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4AMHtwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"This dissertation explores the emergence of ethnic and racial identity within the context of the Ghost Dance movements of the late nineteenth century among the Shoshone and Bannock speaking peoples of the northern Great Basin. Most historical interpretations have presented the Ghost Dances as short-lived and desperate religious fantasies. To the contrary, there is ample evidence that these beliefs had a long (well over three decades) and varied history west of the Rockies. Especially intriguing is the role of the Bannock people as missionaries and interpreters of the religion. Although they shared the Fort Hall Reservation and most aspects of their culture with Shoshones, the Bannocks were more consistently linked with the religion. This raises the question of what it meant to be a "Shoshone" or a "Bannock." I argue that social and economic differences were at the heart of these ethnic identities, and that they in large part explain each peoples' reaction to the Ghost Dances. In turn, these religions represented the emergence of an American Indian racial identity. Thus, the Ghost Dances were not simply the dreams of an oppressed and dying culture, but important elements in the development of ethnic and racial identity among some American Indian peoples"--Leaf iv