Trade Paperback. Native American History. Illustrations throughout the book. James Mooney was sent by the Bureau of American Ethnology to investigate this politically controversial religious movement, and produced a report that still stands as a model of careful observation an intelligently sympathetic interpretation.

The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890

James Mooney

Anthony F.C. Wallace

Religion & Spirituality

Univ of Chicago Pr

Culture and personality is a brilliant and authoritative presentation of past and present theories of culture and personality. It traces the evolution of culture and the psychology of culture change, and shows the relation between culture and personality patterns.

Culture and Personality

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Random House]

his book can be read several ways-- as a chronicle of the American Revolution from the Native American point of view, as escapist literature glorifying the Iroquois in their heyday, as a rather challenging alternative perspective on serial monogamy, torture, and social norms, as the transformation of a branch of Native American spirituality into a movement for sobriety, right-to-life, and the renunciation of witchcraft, as analysis of an early Quaker effort in Third World development work ... And naturally, the overall reading is as the tale of how a proud culture pulled itself back together after being overrun and almost destroyed as a consequence of European settlement. Our local Heinz Regional History Museum somehow manages to overlook the story about the origins of the Handsome Lake spiritual movement. It so happened that there was a bend in the river, where now stands the Kinzua Dam, a flat spot surrounded by steep hills and cliffs, where the Cornplanter band, the largest remaining band of free living Senecas, took refuge after the Revolutionary War. The Senecas had served as winning warriors for the losing side, and as a result, refugee camps up near Fort Niagara filled up with thousands of Indians in need of British relief, mourning their burned-out towns and villages. In the ensuing atmosphere of despair, Handsome Lake and some of his Cornplanter band buddies decided to bring a raft with plenty of liquor up the river from Pittsburgh. The party that followed was-- well, let's just say that the repentance occurring in the wake of that rave gone awry launched a spiritual movement which continues to this day. (Amazon customer)

Death and Rebirth of the Seneca

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

A celebrated triumph of historiography, Rockdale tells the story of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania. The lives of workers, managers, inventors, owners, and entrepreneurs are brilliantly illuminated by Anthony F. C. Wallace, who also describes the complex technology that governed all of Rockdaleâ€™s townspeople. Wallace examines the new relationships between employer and employee as work and workers moved out of the fields into the closed-in world of the spinning mule, the power loom, and the mill office. He brings to light the impassioned battle for the soul of the mill worker, a struggle between the exponents of the Enlightenment and Utopian Socialism, on the one hand, and, on the other, the ultimately triumphant champions of evangelical Christianity.

Rockdale: The growth of an American village in the early industrial revolution

History

Americas

KNOPF

Religion: An Anthropological View

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. 
This account of Congress's Indian Removal Act of 1830 focuses on the plight of the Indians of the Southeast--Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles--who were forced to leave their ancestral lands and relocate to what is now the state of Oklahoma. Revealing Andrew Jackson's central role in the government's policies, Wallace examines the racist attitudes toward Native Americans that led to their removal and, ultimately, their tragic fate.

The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Hill and Wang

"From the Back Cover 
"Until this volume, there has been no single book written that relates the history and life style of one of the Iroquois peoples with the encompassing depth and breadth of knowledge, clarity, and interest that the subject deserves. Finally, this book does it for the Seneca. It is enthralling history, told in a knowledgeable, highly readable way." 
-- Alvin M. Joseph, Jr., author of The Indian Heritage of America\n"This book is at once troubling and richly textured; for it draws skillfully and impartially on the resources of history, ethnology and psychology to chronicle the agony and decline of one of the proudest of American Indian peoples."\n-- Morris Opler Book World\n"Here is a carefully crafted masterpiece of anthropological and historical investigation. It is about both the specific renaissance of the Seneca and the possible renaissance of any people. On its specific subject matter, it will probably remain the definitive study for a long time."\n-- Christian Science Monitor"

THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF THE SENECA. The History and Culture of the Great Iroquois Nation, Their Destruction and Demoralization, and Their Cultural Revival at the Hands of the Indian Visionary, Handsome Lake

Alfred.A. Knopf

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