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A dancing people : powwow culture on the southern Plains / Clyde Ellis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: vii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 070061494X
  • 9780700614943
  • 0700612742
  • 9780700612741
Other title:
  • Powwow culture on the southern plains
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 793.3108997078 22
LOC classification:
  • E98.P86 E55 2003
Contents:
Introduction: "We're a dancing people, always have been" -- 1. "It's our way of life. It goes with us all the time, every day": Overview of the Powwow's History -- 2. "The sound of the drum will revive them and make them happy": Nineteenth-century Plains Society Dances and the Roots of the Powwow -- 3. "There is no doubt the dances should be curtailed": Indian Dances and Federal Policy on the Southern Plains, 1880-1930 -- 4. "Five dollars a week to be 'regular' Indians": Shows, Exhibitions, and the Economics of Indian Dancing, 1880-1930 -- 5. "This is the first powwow circuit in the United States": The Powwow Comes into View -- 6. "Enormous crowds attracted by the war dances": Craterville Park and the American Indian Exposition -- Conclusion: "My children and grandchildren, they've learned these ways, too, because it's good, it's powerful"
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index.

Introduction: "We're a dancing people, always have been" -- 1. "It's our way of life. It goes with us all the time, every day": Overview of the Powwow's History -- 2. "The sound of the drum will revive them and make them happy": Nineteenth-century Plains Society Dances and the Roots of the Powwow -- 3. "There is no doubt the dances should be curtailed": Indian Dances and Federal Policy on the Southern Plains, 1880-1930 -- 4. "Five dollars a week to be 'regular' Indians": Shows, Exhibitions, and the Economics of Indian Dancing, 1880-1930 -- 5. "This is the first powwow circuit in the United States": The Powwow Comes into View -- 6. "Enormous crowds attracted by the war dances": Craterville Park and the American Indian Exposition -- Conclusion: "My children and grandchildren, they've learned these ways, too, because it's good, it's powerful"

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