Publications

Books

Ghost Dance Songs and Religion of a Wind River Shoshone Woman. Monograph Series in Ethnomusicology, no. 4. Los Angeles: University of California, 1986.

Songprints: The Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Shoshone Ghost Dance Religion: Poetry Songs and Great BasinContext Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Master’s Thesis

A View of Wind River Shoshone Music Through Four Ceremonies University of Michigan, 1978

Journal Articles

"The Songs of Four Shoshone Women: A Reflection of Cultural Movements and Sex Roles." Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, 26, no. 1, pp. 73-83, 1982.

"The Shoshone Ghost Dance and Numic Myth: Common Heritage, Common Themes." Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, vol.17, No.2, pp. 174-190, 1995.

Essays in Books

"Shoshone Music." New Grove Dictionary of American Music, vol. 4, pp.221-222. London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1986.

"From the Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women." In Women in North American Indian Music: Six Essays, edited by Bruno Nettl, Special Series, no. 6, pp. 5-12. Bloomington, Indiana: Society for Ethnomusicology, 1989.

“Eastern Shoshone,” by Shimkin, Demitri B., and Judith Vander. In Encyclopedia of Native Americans in the 20 thCentury. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994.

"Poetry Songs of the Shoshone Ghost Dance." In: Coming to Light:Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America. New York: Random House, 1994.

“The Creative Power and Artistry of Ghost Dance Songs.” In Music of the First Nations: Collected Essays in Native North American Musics, Edited by Tara Browner. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, in press.