Shoshone ghost dance religion

"The Ghost Dance, which figured in the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, was a widespread Native American religious movement. Judith Vander's pathbreaking Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion demonstrates that it was not a single religion, but had two branches--the Great Basin branch, a nature religion typified by Shoshone Ghost Dance songs (Naraya), and the Plains branch, documented by famed anthropologist James Mooney in 1896. Book jacket."--Jacket.