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The Cherokee Ghost Dance
Resource ID: 3172
Type: non-fiction, book
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- UPDATED: 6.29.2025
- populations, ancestor work, culture
- culture, religion, colonial America, resilience, ancestors, dance, strength, spirituality, tradition, history
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n/a
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date:
1984
ISBN:
9780865541283
pages:
540
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description:
In these essays a distinguished historian analyzes how the Indian nations of the Southeast grappled with nationalism, slavery, and missionaries. Against the background of this "combined onslaught on their cultural identity," McLoughlin describes what the Indians did "to preserve what they considered most important.
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