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Book Four
Time and space are once again divided in the fourth book. It includes scenes set in present-day New England, where Walcott suffers over the failure of his marriage, and a visit to the Dakota Indian territories in the 1890s. There, the Oglala Lakota Sioux are reacting to the genocidal policies of white men by joining the Ghost Dance, a millenarian religous movement of Plains tribes. Participation in the Ghost Dance alarmed officials monitoring activities on the reservations and led to the the massacre of more than three hundred families camped along Wounded Knee...

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