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on Indian reservations across the West

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and many others- weave powerful accounts of struggle and loss into a moving testimony to perseverance and survival

God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America standing rock on Indian reservations across theIn 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling new view of the religion known as the Ghost Dance, from its origins in the visions of a Northern Paiute named Wovoka to the tragedy in South Dakota. To this day,