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Indian Ghost Dances
Thinking Beyond Wounded Knee: The American Indian Ghost Dances as Expressions of Identity and Survival Author Gregory E. Smoak presents information about The Ghost Dance movements of the late nineteenth century which have been interpreted as the last gasp of a dying culture, while the massacre at Wounded Knee has been seen as the sad, inevitable result of that religious fantasy. The Ghost Dances were powerful religious expressions of a shared American Indian identity that originated earlier than most historians realize and survives to the present day. In 2006, the University of California Press published Dr. Smoaks Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century, which historian Richard White hailed as a compellingly nuanced and sophisticated study of Indian peoples as negotiators and shapers of the modern world. Dr. Smoak is currently researching cultural and political struggles between white medical doctors and native healers on Western Indian reservations from the 1870s to the 1920s. Co-sponsored by the Estes Park Public Library Foundation and the Estes Park Museum, and funded by the Xcel Energy Foundation. Free, 7 pm; Doors open at 6:30 pm, 04/19/08, Estes Park Museum, 200 4th Street, 970-586-6256, www.estesnet.com/museum DatesExplore!
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