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This study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North American Indians offers an innovative theory about why these movements arose when they did. Professor Thornton argues that the Ghost Dances were deliberate efforts to accomplish a demographic revitalization of American Indians following their virtual collapse.Thornton, Russell is the author of 'We Shall Live Again The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements As Demographic Revitalization', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521034524 and ISBN 0521034523.
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