Introduction -- Part I. Networks of correspondence -- Acquiring and using literacy -- Connecting reservations -- Part II. Networks of visitation -- Remaining mobile -- Dangerous influences -- Part III. Communicating the Ghost Dance -- "Go and tell all the tribes " -- Suppressing the spread -- The Ghost Dance in a continental network -- Continuing the movement -- Conclusion
Summary
Documenting the evolution and operation of intertribal networking, Gage demonstrates its effectiveness--and recognizes for the first time how, through Native activism, long-distance, intercultural communication persisted in the colonized American West
