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The ghost dancers : a novel
- Title
- The ghost dancers : a novel / Adrian C. Louis ; with a foreword by Steve Pacheco.
- Author
- Louis, Adrian C.
- Publication
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 247 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Lyman "Bean" Wilson, a half-breed Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism at Lakota University in South Dakota, reassesses his life. The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual adventures, crises at work, pipe and sweat-lodge ceremonies, and-through his membership in the secret Ghost Dancers Society-political activism, culminating in a successful plot to blow the nose off of the George Washington statue on Mt. Rushmore"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Contents
- Foreword / Steve Pacheco -- Book One. "In a Sacred Manner We Come." Prologue. The Invisible Redskin ; Unsica No More! ; The Cold World of the Dog-Eaters ; A Riot of Serpents and Lions ; Tahecapsun Wi: The Moon When the Deer Shed Their Antlers ; The Ghost Dance Society ; Leaving the Land of the Numa ; Silent Night, Holy Night ; The Indian Cheap Wine Séance ; The Mad Dog of Jesus Christ -- Book Two. "Run, Indian, Run." The Religion of the Doves ; Fighting a Fear of the Dark ; The Incident at the Stone Heads ; The Vision of Killing Their God's Nose ; E Ku No... My Grandfather ; The Nations Strike Back.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-1363
- ISBN
- 9781647790240
- 1647790247
- LCCN
- 2021008771
- 40030755959
- OCLC
- 1240827606
- Author
- Louis, Adrian C., author.
- Title
- The ghost dancers : a novel / Adrian C. Louis ; with a foreword by Steve Pacheco.
- Publisher
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030755959
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-1363