The South Dakota Historical Society Press will publish “A Phantom Storm: Sitting Bull, America, and the Ghost Dance” by Norman E. Matteoni this month.In the fall of 1890, a new religion swept onto South Dakota reservations like a prairie fire. The Ghost Dance, as it was called, promised that if American Indians would dance and pray, a Messiah would deliver them from the misery of res...
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