Song of Wovoka

by Earl Murray

Twenty years after Dance with Wolves, Father Mark Thomas finds a life with the Cheyenne River Sioux and a beautiful woman named Fawn more compelling than his Jesuit training. But as Father Thomas' new life is beginning, the old life of the Sioux is about to one more hard winter and the people will starve.

The Sioux's last hope is Wovka, a Piaute prophet who promises that if all dance his Ghost Dance then the buffalo will return and the white man will vanish from the earth.

Is Wovoka a savior? Will the Ghost Dance lead the people to salvation, or to the tragedy called Wounded Knee?

Genres: Fiction, Native American

416 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

AKA E.P. Murray

Reviews

[Kristen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this in early high school, I don't remember much about it, but I liked it at the time.