"Examines how Native Americans created vast intertribal networks of communication to control their own sources of information, spread and reinforce ideas, and collectively discuss and mobilize resistance against government policies during the late nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Acquiring and using literacy --Connecting reservations -- Networks of visitation -- Remaining mobile -- Dangerous influences -- Communicating the Ghost Dance -- "Go and tell all the tribes" -- Suppressing the spread -- The Ghost Dance in a continental network -- Continuing the movement.