Primary Sources: Native Americans - American Indians - Indigenous Americans: Religion

Mrs. Z. A. Parker, description of a Ghost Dance observed on White Clay creek at Pine Ridge reservation, Dakota Territory, June 20, 1890.

"...was published by the Benedictine order at the Sacred Heart Abbey in Indian Territory, near present day Shawnee. Father D. Ignatius, the second and last of the Prefect Apostolics in Oklahoma, established the Indian Advocate in 1888."

A website intended to be "an accompanying online archive" to Experience Mayhew's Indian Converts: A Cultural Edition. It contains "over 600 images and documents that further contextualize Mayhew’s work. "

Barracks Ballad by Pvt. W. H. Prather, an African-American member of the Ninth Cavalry. Composed and popular among the troops during the "Sioux Outbreak" campaign of 1890.

"James Mooney, an ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, was sent to investigate the Ghost Dance movement in 1891. He obtained a copy of Wovoka's message from a Cheyenne named Black Short Nose, who had been part of a joint Cheyenne-Arapaho delegation that visited Wovoka in Nevada in August 1891. Wovoka (also known as Jack Wilson) delivered his message orally, and it was transcribed by a member of the group who had attended Carlisle Indian School. Mooney renders the "Carlisle English" of this transcription in a more grammatical form."