The following is an excerpt from Ghost Dance. Goyahkla arrived from the southwest. Little was known of the Apache warrior. His legend here—the man who would come to be known as the worst Indian ever to have lived to white settlers—was still in its infancy. It was full-grown, however, in Mexico. Just a few years [...]
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Here’s a look at a draft of a Ghost Dance bumper. Research and storyboarding continues! Ghost Dance brings together the genres of Historical Native American Fiction & Religious Thriller. It’s a work of historical fiction that spills across time–and into your life. (Coming: Spring/Summer 2012)
Meet Joe. Joseph Allen Wilson is a seventh generation descendant of Jack Wilson, otherwise known as Wovoka (b. 1856, d. 1932). He is a successful business owner (an import/export business), and proud of his Paiute roots, participating in heritage events and employing and serving his people in Nevada. Joseph is in his fifties, married but somewhat [...]
The Ghost Dance was a religious phenomenon that swept through Indian tribes across the American West in the late 1800s. It touched off what historians have deemed the “Messiah Craze” and led to Pine Ridge Agent Daniel F. Royer’s frantic plea for government troops to bring an abrupt end to the Indian practice–which ultimately became [...]
