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tance of the legitimacy of new religious rituals easier for us than it
was for our ancestors. James Mooney's remarkable The Ghost-Dance
Religion is one of those treasures from the past that can help us all,
Indians and non-Indians alike, to understand the development of re-
ligions, and to appreciate their importance as a uniquely human part
of our heritage.


NOTES
1. James H. Howard, The Canadian Sioux ( Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 1984), pp. 173-79; Alice Kehoe, The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and
Revitalization (Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1989), pp. 41-50;
Benjamin R. Kracht, "Kiowa Religion: An Ethnohistorical Analysis of Ritual
Symbolism, 1832-1987" (Ph.D. diss., Southern Methodist University, 1989),
pp. 778-819). The Ghost Dance continued to be practiced in Oklahoma by
the Caddos and Wichitas until the early 1970s; over time it became more of
a private and social affair held every two or three years ( Alice Marriott and
Carol K. Rachlin, Peyote [ New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1971], p. 21; Morris W. Foster
, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, personal
communication, 1991).
2. Biographical details are taken from L. G. Moses, The Indian Man: A
Biography of James Mooney ( Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984),
which presents a thorough chronology of Mooney's life, both personal and
professional.
3. Lewis Henry Morgan, Ancient Society; or, Researches in the Lines of
Human Progress from Savagery through Barbarism to Civilization ( New
York: Henry Holt, 1877). George W. Stocking Jr., Victorian Anthropology
( New York: Free Press, 1987), provides an insightful overview of nineteenth-
century social evolutionism. Curtis Hinsley, Savages and Scientists: The
Smithsonian Institution and the Development of American Anthropology
( Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981), chronicles the develop-
ment of anthropology in nineteenth-century Washington, D.C. For a good
introduction to Powell's anthropology, see Selected Prose of John Wesley
Powell, edited by George Crossette ( Boston: David R. Godine, 1970).
4. John Wesley Powell, "Report of the Director," Bureau of American Eth-
nology Annual Report 14 ( 1896), 1:lx.
5. Anthony P. C. Wallace, "Revitalization Movements," American Anthro-
pologist 58 ( 1956): 264-81; David F. Aberle, The Peyote Religion among the
Navaho, Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology 42 ( Chicago: Aldine,
1966). Weston La Barre, The Ghost Dance: The Origins of Religion ( New
York: Delta, 1972), presents a worldwide survey of religious movements from
a psychological and anthropological perspective. Ralph W. Nicholas, "Social
and Political Movements" (in Annual Review of Anthropology, ed. Bernard J. Siegel
, Alan R. Beals, and Stephen A. Tyler [ Palo Alto, Calif.: Annual
Reviews, 19731, pp. 63-84) presents a helpful bibliographic overview of the
literature on social movements. The literature on the Ghost Dance itself is
extensive; see Shelley Anne Osterreich, The American Indian Ghost Dance,
1870 and 1890: An Annotated Bibliography ( Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press, 1991).

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