| The Dance of Ghosts, a spiritual dance of the Lakota Sioux in the late 1880’s, became their hope---and their demise. Their ancestors were to rise from the dead, reclaim their lands and restore it to its natural state, as it was prior to the intrusion of the white man. But what actually happened, was far from what Wovoka, their Messiah, preached.
Ghost Dancers, by D.L. (Diane) Rogers, follows Lt. George Hawkins from the Battle of the Little Bighorn to the newly established Indian reservations to the Massacre at Wounded Knee, a massacre precipitated by fear of the Ghost Dance.
Ghost Dancers is the last book in "The White Oaks Trilogy" which chronicles the destruction of the Sioux nation from the mid-1800's through 1890, culminating at the Massacre at Wounded Knee. This historically accurate but fictional trilogy begins with Tomorrow's Promise: Survival on the Plains, is followed by Bound by Blood, and concludes with Ghost Dancers.
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