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ghost dance: jackie wilson says
Ghost dances and cargo cults. They are deeply embedded within the American narrative. In times of stress there is both a wariness and susceptibility to prophets, from the authentic to the snake oil salespeople. An earthly paradise beckons, and America … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alice Kehoe, Buffalo Bill Cody, Ghost Dance movement, Handsome Lake, Indian Rebellion Wounded Knee, John Sloan, John Sloan art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sitting Bull and Custard, Sitting Bull Sioux, The Ghost Dance, William F. Cody, Wounded Knee Massacre, Wovoka, Wovoka jack Wilson
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INDIAN GIVERS & LAND DITHERS
”For a time Europeans had invented an AMERICA peopled by noble savages, men uncorrupted by civilization; as Montaigne wrote, quoting Seneca, they were “fresh from the gods”. But Europe has never stopped reinventing the New World. The eighteenth-century debate took … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Abbe Corneille de Pauw, Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Stuart, American Slavery, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ben Franklin, Buffalo Bill Cody, Chief Billy Bowlegs, Comte de Buffon, Conrad Black, E. Adamson Hoebel, Ellen Wallace Sharples, Freidrich von Gentz, Geoff Mangum, George Catlin, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Jerry Keenan, John Trudell, Karl Bodmer, Marquis de Condorcet, Thomas Jefferson
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