Christian salvation narratives often focus exclusively on Jesus' relationship with humanity, but Servant of God Nicholas Black Elk and the Ghost Dance tradition proclaim a broader vision of salvation: ...

SCHURZ - Americans today remember the Paiute holy man Wovoka, the most famous Nevada Indian, for all the wrong reasons. He was a tall, strong man who went by the Anglo name of Jack Wilson and grew up ...

The Ghost Dance of the 1890s was a widespread spiritual movement that helped sustain American Indians in the West through a time when the federal government was bent on erasing their culture, says ...

Host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Louis S. Warren about his book Gods Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America, which describes the pan-Indian religious movement that swept ...

In a time when Western Native American tribes needed something to give them hope, they turned to the Ghost Dance. Their lands had been overrun by white settlers. The buffalo had been slaughtered, and ...

Ghost Dancers tells the history of the Ghost Dance Movement. By the winter of 1899-1890, the Lakotah’s pain had become too great to endure, and they began to give credence to a rumor about an Indian ...