From: The American Indian Quarterly | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: DANVER, STEVEN L. | COPYRIGHT 1998 University of Nebraska Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Michael Hittman. Wovoka and the Ghost Dance. Expanded Edition. Edited by Don Lynch. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1997. 373 + xviii pp. Photographs, notes, appendices, bibliography. Paper, $20.00.

Wovoka, the Paiute prophet whose visions sparked an entire chapter of the history of the western United States is often very poorly understood among academics and laypeople alike. Indeed, contradictory accounts of the content and purposes of Wovoka's visions have confused m...