Gage, Justin R., 1981-

We do not want the gates closed between us : Native networks and the spread of the Ghost Dance / Justin Gage. - xi, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-346) and index.

Networks of correspondence -- Acquiring and using literacy -- Connecting reservations -- Networks of visitation -- Remaining mobile -- Dangerous influences -- Communicating the Ghost Dance -- "Go and tell all the tribes" -- Suppressing the spread -- The Ghost Dance in a continental network -- Continuing the movement.

"Examines how Native Americans created vast intertribal networks of communication to control their own sources of information, spread and reinforce ideas, and collectively discuss and mobilize resistance against government policies during the late nineteenth century"--

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1800-1899


Ghost dance.
Indians of North America--Communication--History--19th century.
Indians of North America--Social networks--History--19th century.
Danse des esprits.

E98 .C73 / G34 2020

970.004/97