Louis S. Warren is the W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western US History at the University of California, Davis. The award-winning author of several books, Warren lives in Davis, California.
"God's Red Son is riveting and transcendent-a magnificent new
interpretation that reveals the Ghost Dance as a beacon to
modernity, lighting the way to the future. Like Wovoka himself,
Louis Warren speaks to all of us navigating the difficult terrain
between past realities and present prospects."
--Elizabeth Fenn, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History,
University of Colorado Boulder
"[God's Red Son is] an enlightening scholarly study of American
Indian history... [An] astute new appraisal [of the Ghost Dance
religion]... This is an eye-opening work of American history."
--Kirkus
"[God's Red Son] is a complex work that has much to teach us about
the social sciences and anthropology. While of obvious academic
interest, the book will also appeal to general readers curious
about Indian history and religion."
--Booklist
"An engrossing, readable, and carefully researched history plotting
the rise, spread, and continued life of the Ghost Dance among
Native Americans...The work will delight fans of well-written
history and appeal to historians of the West, Native Americans, and
religion."
--Publishers Weekly
"Forget what you thought you knew about the Ghost Dance. In God's
Red Son, Louis Warren delivers an entirely new and convincing
interpretation of one of the most significant episodes in the
colonization of the American West. A masterwork of investigative
history."
--John Mack Faragher, Yale University
"I can't remember the last book I read that so persuasively
rewrites what I thought I knew about a much studied topic. Louis
Warren's book does that for the Ghost Dance, and, more than that,
it allows readers to see anew the history of the era and of all
American religions. God's Red Son is truly a revelation."
--Stephen Aron, Professor of History, UCLA
"In God's Red Son, Louis Warren offers an original, compellingly
written and clear-eyed chronicle of native cultural transformation
and ordeal."
--Wall Street Journal
"Louis Warren is one of the most original historians writing today.
He has an uncanny ability to see what others have missed and to
convey it in a clear compelling narrative."
--Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History,
Stanford University
"Louis Warren's Buffalo Bill's America leapt past decades of
writing to become the definitive treatment of the Wild West show.
With God's Red Son, he has done it again, combining scholarly depth
and literary brilliance in a magisterial reinterpretation of the
Ghost Dance. But more than that, God's Red Son is one of the most
powerful accounts of Native American modernity you'll ever read,
critical to an understanding of Indian Country today."
--Philip J. Deloria, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor,
University of Michigan
"With God's Red Son, Louis Warren has written yet another book that
is going to re-arrange the mental furniture in our heads. His
wonderfully clear prose pulls us effortlessly through a story that
has western Indians emerge as entirely modern, and their 19th
century Ghost Dance religion as an endeavor many readers will find
not just freshly understandable, but spiritually familiar. As was
the case with his biography of Buffalo Bill, this book is Warren at
the absolute top of his game."
--Dan Flores, author of Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural
History
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