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Dreamer-Prophets of the Columbia Plateau: Smohalla and Skolaskin Volume 191 Paperback - 2002
by Robert H. Ruby; John A. Brown; Foreword by Herman J. Viola
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In the eighteenth and, particularly, the nineteenth century the forceful dilution of Native American cultures by the influx of Euro-Americans in the Pacific Northwest encouraged native prophet-leaders who advocated maintaining, restoring, or changing the traditional lifeways.
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- Title Dreamer-Prophets of the Columbia Plateau: Smohalla and Skolaskin Volume 191
- Author Robert H. Ruby; John A. Brown; Foreword by Herman J. Viola
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-06-15
- Features Maps
- ISBN 9780806134307 / 0806134305
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.62 x 5.46 x 0.82 in (21.89 x 13.87 x 2.08 cm)
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- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.500
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Paperback / softback. New. Seekers after wisdom have always been drawn to American Indian ritual and symbol. This history of two nineteenth-century Dreamer-Prophets, Smohalla and Skolaskin, will interest those who seek a better understanding of the traditional Native American commitment to Mother Earth, visionary experiences drawn from ceremony, and the promise of revitalization implicit in the Ghost Dance. To white observers, the Dreamers appeared to imitate Christianity by celebrating the sabbath and preaching a covenant with God, nonviolence, and life after death. But the Prophets also advocated adherence to traditional dress and subsistence patterns and to the spellbinding Washat dance. By engaging in this dance and by observing traditional life-ways, the Prophets claimed, the living Indians might bring their dead back to life and drive the whites from the earth. They themselves brought heaven to earth, they said, by "dying, going there, and returning," in trances induced by…
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