A broad range of perspectives from Natives and non-Natives makes this book the most complete account and analysis yet of the Lakota Ghost Dance. A revitalization movement that swept across Native communities of the West in the late 1880s, the Ghost Dance took firm hold among the Lakotas, perplexed and alarmed government agents, sparked the intervention of the U.S. Army, and culminated in the massacre of hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in December 1890.

Although the Lakota Ghost Dance has been the subject of much previous historical study, the views of the...