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Song Of Wovoka (The Buffalo Song)
Earl Murray

Song Of Wovoka (The Buffalo Song)

Tor Books (Jun 15, 1993)
9780812513189
| Mass Market Paperback
416 pages | 109 x 170 mm
Dewey 813.54

Subject

  • Dakota Indians
  • Dakota Indians/ Wars, 1890-1891/ Fiction
  • Wounded Knee Creek, Battle Of, 1890
  • Wounded Knee Creek, Battle Of, 1890/ Fiction
  • Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890

Plot

Twenty years after Dance with Wolves, Father Mark Thomas finds a life with the Cheyenne River Sioux and a beautiful woman named Fawn more compelling than his Jesuit training. But as Father Thomas' new life is beginning, the old life of the Sioux is about to end: one more hard winter and the people will starve.The Sioux's last hope is Wovka, a Piaute prophet who promises that if all dance his Ghost Dance then the buffalo will return and the white man will vanish from the earth.Is Wovoka a savior? Will the Ghost Dance lead the people to salvation, or to the tragedy called Wounded Knee?

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