Gregory Smoak
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Dec
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Yeah.
That is the coda.
That is the dramatic end.
You get that scene of them bringing the wounded into that chapel, that wounded knee, with the banner saying, goodwill to all men.
And that's how Dee Brown twists.
That's the dramatic end point of that book.
And it shocks a lot of people.
And I read that when I was in middle school.
It's one of the books that really got me interested in doing this kind of history.
Well, the ghost dance survives to today.
It is practiced on some reservations, not all, but for instance, people at Fort Hall, Idaho, where I've spent much of my career working for the tribes at various times, the ghost dance is still practiced there in a fairly traditional form.
And ghost dancers are a proud group of people up there who continue this religion.
But the religion itself, though, is transformed in some areas.
It becomes other things.
Among the Pawnee people in Oklahoma, there is a hand game, a game that is invented out of that.
Among Nakot or Canadian Sioux people, the New Tidings religion is a version of it.
It certainly is a forerunner of other redemptive pan-Indian religions in the 20th century, most notably the Sundance.
It survives.
The fact that James Mooney
When he's studying this, he gets permission to study the ghost dance and goes out in 1892.
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