| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

A Dancing People: Powwow Culture on the Southern Plains. By Clyde Ellis. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. viii, 232 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1274-2.)
The photographer Edward Curtis (The Vanishing Race) and the sculptor James Fraser (The End of the Trail) still cast a long shadow over contemporary scholars attempting to write about American Indian histories. As the author and activist D'Arcy McNickle once observed, most students of indigenous communities have not understood the difference between loss and defeat. The author of A Dancing People dares to take his narrative into the here and now. In so doing he declares that Indian peoples have a future as well as a past.	1
Clyde Ellis's significant study is an effective counterpoint to the assertions of those who still believe that Indians are about to be fully assimilated into mainstream American culture. He takes us to the Intertribal Indian Club of Tulsa's (IICOT) Powwow of Champions in August. The powwow is held in sequence with the massive gathering of indigenous peoples in Oklahoma City for the Red Earth Festival in early June and the Kiowa Tiah-Piah Society's gourd dance and powwow near Carnegie, Oklahoma, around the Fourth of July. Those events yield ample evidence that pow-wows are centrally important in "maintaining old ways and introducing new ones" (p. 8).	. . .

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