Benjamin rené

2018 · 24318 — Lincoln: University of Nebrasca Press 2018. First edition. Hardbound in fine condition in fine dust jacket. 337 pages. Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual in the final decades of the nineteenth century. During the height of the horse-and-bison culture Kiowa beliefs were founded in the notion of daudau a force permeating the universe that was accessible through vision quests. Following the end of the Southern Plains wars in 1875 the Kiowas were confined within the boundaries of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Plains Apache Reservation. As wards of the government they witnessed the extinction of the bison herds which led to the collapse of the Sun Dance by 1890. Though prophet movements in the 1880s had failed to restore the bison other religions emerged to fill the void left by the loss of the Sun Dance. Kiowas now sought daudau through the Ghost Dance Christianity and the Peyote religion. University of Nebrasca Press unknown