![]() Despite his intellectual disagreements with Mooney's conclusions, however, Major John Wesley Powell, the director of the Bureau of Ethnology, took the risk of publishing Mooney's The Ghost-Dance Religion. The analytical model used by evolutionary anthropologists suggested that contact with civilization would bring a rapid replacement of old Indian religions with Christianity, a religion of civilization, not with new Indian expressions. The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 By James Mooney Cover Image. Mooney's contemporaries had no room for the notion that new Indian religions represented cultural forms equal to Christianity. The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 (Paperback). ![]() ![]() DeMallie points out that Mooney's interpretation of the Ghost Dance not only represented a kind of heresy to Christian Americans but also to evolutionary anthropologists who viewed such religious expressions as aberrations on the road to civilization. ![]() Such an introduction enhances a reading of Mooney. A careful reading of DeMallie's introduction before plunging into Mooney's text lets the reader know what impact the book had on the anthropologists, government officials, and Indians of Mooney's own time. ![]()
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