Letters and Politics

A History of the Ghost Dance Religious Movement

Guest: Louis S. Warren is the W Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at U.C. Davis. He is the author of the book author of Buffalo Bill’s AmericaAmerican Environmental History, and most recently,  God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America.

Feature image: The Ghost Dance of 1889–1891, depicting the Oglala at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, by Frederic Remington in 1890 on Wikimedia Commons.