Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century.(Book review)

The Historian | September 22, 2007| | Copyright

Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century. By Gregory E. Smoak. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 289. $44.95.)

The author of this book, in his revised dissertation, has contributed to the field of Native American history in two ways. First, he provides an in-depth history of two understudied tribes, the Shoshone and Bannock of Idaho. Second, within this fairly traditional chronological history, Gregory E. Smoak uses ethnohistorical methodology to investigate the ...

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