University of Nebraska Press, 1984. — 408 p. In August 1862 the Dakota or Eastern Sioux, frustrated at being defrauded by the United States government and at losing their land and livelihood, resorted to armed conflict against the white settlers of southern Minnesota. Gary Clayton Anderson is the first historian to use an ethnohistorical approach to explain why, after more than...
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986. — 280 p. Government officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white population and a loss of hunting grounds, sought to exchange title to their homeland for annuities of cash and food, schools and teachers, and farms and...
Chelsea House Publications, 2004. — 118 p. — (Indians of North America) "The Teton Sioux", part of "Indians of North America" series, presents a fascinating portrayal of the history and culture of these native people. The Teton Sioux or "plains dwellers" resided in what is now North and South Dakota, and were well known for their war and trade with local tribes.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. — 172 p.
Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the "keeper of the sacred pipe", he said, "It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and through this book in which I shall...
Penguin Books Inc., 1972. — 180 p. Here is a unique account of the ancient religion of the Sioux Indians. Black Elk was the only qualified priest still alive when he gave the material in this book to Joseph Epes Brown during the latter's stay at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Beginning with White Buffalo Cow Woman's first visit to the Sioux to give them the sacred...
University of Nebraska Press, 1999. — 340 p. For centuries, a persistent and important component of Lakota religious life has been the Inipi , the ritual of the sweat lodge. The sweat lodge has changed little in appearance since its first recorded description in the late seventeenth century. The ritual itself consists of songs, prayers, and other actions conducted in a tightly...
University of Nebraska Press, 1999. — 340 p.
For centuries, a persistent and important component of Lakota religious life has been the Inipi , the ritual of the sweat lodge. The sweat lodge has changed little in appearance since its first recorded description in the late seventeenth century. The ritual itself consists of songs, prayers, and other actions conducted in a tightly...
Edited by Peter V. Catches — Clear Light Books, 1999. — 228 p. Oceti Wakan (Sacred Fireplace) is a vision shared by Pete Catches Sr. (Petaga Yuha Mani, 1912-1993) and his son Peter V. Catches (Zintkala Oyate), both Spotted Eagle medicine men of the Oglala Lakota. In Pete's words, Oceti Wakan is a response to events that have devastated the Dakota people over the past six...
HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. — 246 p. The first Crow Dog was born in the 1830s. A contemporary and comrade of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, he was a leading participant in the messianic Ghost Dance of 1889 that precipitated the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. In 1973, his great-grandson, Leonard Crow Dog, was AIM's spiritual leader at the second Wounded Knee. The memories...
Harper Perennial, 1991. — 272 p. Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing missionary school, narrow strictures for women, and violence and hopeless of reservation life, she joined the new movement of tribal pride sweeping Native...
Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Thierry Veyrié. — Bison Books, 2022. — 434 p. Ella Cara Deloria devoted much of her life to the study of the language and culture of the Sioux (Dakota and Lakota). The Dakota Way of Life is the result of the long history of her ethnographic descriptions of traditional Dakota culture and social life. Deloria was the most prolific Native scholar...
Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Thierry Veyrié. — Bison Books, 2022. — 434 p. Ella Cara Deloria devoted much of her life to the study of the language and culture of the Sioux (Dakota and Lakota). The Dakota Way of Life is the result of the long history of her ethnographic descriptions of traditional Dakota culture and social life. Deloria was the most prolific Native scholar...
University of Nebraska Press, 1985. — 452 p. In Black Elk Speaks and When the Tree Flowered , John C. Neihardt recorded the teachings of the Oglala holy man Black Elk, who had, in a vision, seen himself as the "sixth grandfather," the spiritual representative of the earth and of mankind. Raymond J. DeMallie makes available for the first time the transcripts from Neihardt's...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. — 252 p. Individuals of all persuasions have become deeply interested in contemporary Sioux religious practices. These essays by tribal religious leaders, scholars, and other members of the Sioux communities in North and South Dakota deal with the more important questions about Sioux ritual and belief in relation to history, tradition, and...
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918. — 561 p. — (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 61). Frances Densmore's "Teton Sioux Music" is one of the many volumes that resulted from her prolific life-long project to record and transcribe the traditional music of American Indian peoples. The book explores the role of music in all aspects of Sioux life, and is a classic of the...
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918. — 561 p. — (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 61). Frances Densmore's "Teton Sioux Music" is one of the many volumes that resulted from her prolific life-long project to record and transcribe the traditional music of American Indian peoples. The book explores the role of music in all aspects of Sioux life, and is a classic of the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2000. — 174 p.
The story and teachings of Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950), first recorded by John G. Neihardt in "Black Elk Speaks", have played a critical role in shaping the way in which Native Americans and others view the past, present, and future of Native America. These conversations with the descendents of Black Elk offer an intimate look at...
Routledge, 2021. — 150 p. Drawing on Indigenous methodologies, this book uses a close analysis of James R. Walker’s 1917 monograph on the Lakota Sun Dance to explore how the Sun Dance communal ritual complex – the most important Lakota ceremony – creates moral community, providing insights into the cosmology and worldview of Lakota tradition. The book uses Walker’s primary...
Parabola Books, 1984. — 136 p. The Sons of the Wind presents the mythology and sacred spirits of the Lakota. Based on information given to Dr. James Walker a century ago by Lakota Holy Men, this compilation includes the cycle of creation, the appearance of spirits and animals, the making of the four directions, and the coming of the Real People. D. M. Dooling was founder and...
University of Nebraska Press, 1998. — 179 p. From the time he was three years old, in 1943, Joseph Iron Eye Dudley was raised by his grandparents on the Yankton Sioux Reservation. Their tiny weatherbeaten house, nestled in a bend of Choteau Creek on the rolling South Dakota prairie, is where he grew up, and this moving reminiscence recreates with warmth and candor a childhood poor...
Paul C. Durand, 1994. — 138 p. Invaluable source for indigenous reference information. Mr. Durand left us with a glimpse of history that might well have disappeared but for his insightful understanding of what we could have easily lost.
University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 264 p. The resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great resistance, as the Indian nations recovered from war, many figures loomed heroic, yet their stories are mostly unknown. This...
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — xvii, 247 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps. The resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great resistance, as the Indian nations recovered from war, many...
New York: Touchstone, 1973. - 320 p.
Tahca Ushte - John (Fire) Lame Deer - is a full-blooded Sioux Indian born at the beginning of the century on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Lame Deer is a medicine man, a vision seeker, a man who upholds the old religion and the ancient ways of his people. He is a man of the earth. He has been many things in his time - a rodeo...
Taylor & Francis, 1998. — 422 p. Lakota culture survived U.S. policy onslaughts of assimilation for alienation of land, termination to dissolve nationhood, and institutionalization of the bureaucracies designed to implement cultural domination programs. This was not achieved in a cultural vacuum. Essential to all cultural survival of traditional Lakota lifeways were three...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 276 p. From April to November 1935 in Belgium, fifteen Lakotas enacted their culture on a world stage. Wearing beaded moccasins and eagle-feather headdresses, they set up tepees, danced, and demonstrated marksmanship and horse taming for the twenty million visitors to the Brussels International Exposition, a grand event similar to a world’s...
Greenwood, 2011. — 182 p. The Sioux are a Native American people who live in reservations and communities within Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and Wisconsin, as well as certain provinces in Canada. According to U.S. Census Report data, over 150,000 individuals identify themselves as Sioux--more than any other tribe besides Cherokee, Navajo, Latin...
Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. — 328 p. This book covers the entire historical range of the Sioux, from their emergence as an identifiable group in late prehistory to the year 2000. The author has studied the material remains of the Sioux for many years. His expertise combined with his informative and engaging writing style and numerous photographs create a compelling and...
University of Nebraska Press, 1975. — 118 p. This book is intended as both a guide to the identification of typical Teton metal objects and when and how they were used, and a study in the transition of the Teton Sioux Indians from a stone age people in the eighteenth century to a nation almost totally dependent by 1880 on white man's goods obtained from traders and through other...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. — 400 p. For many people the Sioux, as warriors and as buffalo hunters, have become the symbol of all that is Indian colorful figures endowed with great fortitude and powerful vision. They were the heroes of the Great Plains, and they were the villains, too. Royal B. Hassrick here attempts to describe the ways of the people, the patterns of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. — 400 p. For many people the Sioux, as warriors and as buffalo hunters, have become the symbol of all that is Indian colorful figures endowed with great fortitude and powerful vision. They were the heroes of the Great Plains, and they were the villains, too. Royal B. Hassrick here attempts to describe the ways of the people, the patterns of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 276 p. The interest of nineteenth-century Lakotas in the sun, moon, and stars was an essential part of their never-ending quest to understand their world. "The Spirit and the Sky" presents a survey of the ethnoastronomy of the nineteenth-century Lakota and relates Lakota astronomy to their cultural practices and beliefs. The center of...
Syracuse University Press, 1995. — 246 p. Black Elk was one of the greatest religious thinkers produced by native North America, and the Sun Dance the central religious ritual of his Lakota tradition. Beginning with a review of the recent critical work on Black Elk by Paul B. Steinmetz, Julian Rice and Michael K. Steltenkamp, Holler reconstructs the history and development of...
University Press of Colorado, 2002. — 256 p. Ambitious and provocative, Interpreting the Legacy: John Neihardt and Black Elk Speaks is a new study of the classic spiritual text that is sure to spark debate. Neihardt's work has recently been critiqued by scholars who maintain that the author filtered and corrupted Black Elk's teachings through a European spiritual and political...
Second Edition. — With a new foreword by Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks. — University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 226 p. The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they are the least studied of all the...
2nd Edition. — University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 232 p. — (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians). The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they are the least studied of all the Sioux groups....
With a new foreword by Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks. — University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 226 p. The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they are the least studied of all the Sioux groups. This...
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012. — 240 p. , photos : ill., maps. A tiny pair of beaded deerskin moccasins, given to a baby in 1913, provides the starting point for this thoughtful examination of the work of Dakota women. Mary Eastman Faribault, born in Minnesota, made them almost four decades after the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862. This and other ornately...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. — 624 p. The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the world. Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial Black Elk Speaks . Adapted by the poet John G. Neihardt from a series of interviews with Black Elk and other elders at the...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. — 624 p. The epic life story of the Native American holy man who has inspired millions around the world. Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial Black Elk Speaks . Adapted by the poet John G. Neihardt from a series of interviews with Black Elk and other elders at the...
Bear & Company, 1992. — 304 p. With surprising candor, Archie Fire Lame Deer describes the magic and power of the Native American spirit life. Archie's compelling narrative recaptures his boyhood years under the tutelage of his medicine-man grandfather on a South Dakota farm. We follow him from Catholic school runaway to Army misfit, from bartender to boozer, from Hollywood...
University of Nebraska Press, 1990. — 221 p. For the residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practices: the Sun Dance, the yuwipi sing, the heyok’a ceremony, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the peyotism of the Native American Church, and other medicines, or sources of healing. Thomas...
One World Publishing, 1999. — 142 p. This book is an introduction to concepts from the Dakota/Lakota world view and their applicability in contemporary society. It focuses on the deceptively simple message that everything is sacred, everything is connected and everything is accountable, and makes theory and philosophy concrete and available to anyone who cares to look beneath the...
University of Nebraska Press, 1990. — 294 p. Frank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. A disciplined, gentle man who upheld the old ways, he was aggrieved by the social ills he saw besetting his own people and forthright in denouncing them. When he died in 1989 at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South...
University of Nebraska Press, 1990. — 294 p. Frank Fools Crow (c. 1890 – 1989), a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. A disciplined, gentle man who upheld the old ways, he was aggrieved by the social ills he saw besetting his own people and forthright in denouncing them. When he died in 1989 at the Pine Ridge...
San Francisco: Council Oak Books, 2001. — 212 p. Frank Fools Crow is regarded by many as the greatest Native American holy person of the last hundred years. Nephew of Black Elk, and a disciplined, gentle, spiritual and political leader, Fools Crow died in 1989 at the age of 99. "Fools Crow: Wisdom and Power" is the only book to reveal, often in his own words, the philosophy and...
Illustrated by Jim Yellowhawk. — New York, NY: Amulet Books, 2015. — 180 p. Jimmy McClean is a Lakota boy—though you wouldn’t guess it by his name: his father is part white and part Lakota, and his mother is Lakota. When he embarks on a journey with his grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, he learns more and more about his Lakota heritage—in particular, the story of Crazy Horse, one...
Illustrated by Jim Yellowhawk. — New York, NY: Amulet Books, 2015. — 180 p. Jimmy McClean is a Lakota boy—though you wouldn’t guess it by his name: his father is part white and part Lakota, and his mother is Lakota. When he embarks on a journey with his grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, he learns more and more about his Lakota heritage—in particular, the story of Crazy Horse, one of...
Hay House Inc., 2013. — 296 p. Returning to the Lakota Way immerses us once again in the world of the Lakota Sioux through the beautiful storytelling and deep insight of Joseph Marshall’s writing. Relaying traditional tales that have been passed down over generations, Marshall takes us on an inspiring journey that will help us better understand the world around us and our place...
Hay House Inc., 2013. — 240 p. Returning to the Lakota Way immerses us once again in the world of the Lakota Sioux through the beautiful storytelling and deep insight of Joseph Marshall’s writing. Relaying traditional tales that have been passed down over generations, Marshall takes us on an inspiring journey that will help us better understand the world around us and our place...
Penguin Books, 2002. — 256 p. Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of Native American philosophy and reveals the path to a fulfilling and meaningful life. Joseph Marshall is a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux and has dedicated his entire life to the wisdom he learned from his elders. Here he focuses on the twelve core qualities that...
Edited by Daniel M. Beveridge — University of Nebraska Press, 2020. — 336 p. This book presents two of the most important traditions of the Dakota people, the Red Road and the Holy Dance, as told by Samuel Mniyo and Robert Goodvoice, two Dakota men from the Wahpeton Dakota Nation near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. Their accounts of these central spiritual traditions and...
Edited by Simon J. Joseph. — University of Nebraska Press, 2024. — 225 p. Richard Moves Camp’s My Grandfather’s Altar is an oral-literary narrative account of five generations of Lakota religious tradition. Moves Camp is the great-great-grandson of Wóptuȟ’a (“Chips”), the holy man remembered for providing Crazy Horse with war medicines of power and protection. The Lakota...
University of Nebraska Press, 1999. — 158 p. In 1931 John Neihardt traveled to Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to interview Lakota elders who had witnessed the Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee Massacre. He met Black Elk, and their two weeks of intense talks became "Black Elk Speaks", one of the most important biographies of an American Indian ever published. Accompanying...
University of Nebraska Press, 1972. — 168 p.
"Black Elk Speaks", the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G....
University of Nebraska Press, 1972. — 168 p.
"Black Elk Speaks", the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G....
State University of New York Press, 2008. — 366 p.
Widely hailed as a spiritual classic, this inspirational and unfailingly powerful story reveals the life and visions of the Lakota healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and the tragic history of his Sioux people during the epic closing decades of the Old West. In 1930, the aging Black Elk met a kindred spirit, the famed poet,...
Novato, CA: New World Library, 2002. — xiii, 335 p. : ill. — (Neither Wolf Nor Dog Series #1). In this 1995 Minnesota Book Award winner , Kent Nerburn draws the reader deep into the world of an Indian elder known only as Dan. It’s a world of Indian towns, white roadside cafes, and abandoned roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost Dance and Sitting Bull. Readers meet...
Novato, CA: New World Library, 2013. — xvi, 391 p. : ill. — (Neither Wolf Nor Dog Series #3). A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the “old ones” still have powers beyond our understanding. In this moving narrative, we travel through the lands of the...
Novato, CA: New World Library, 2009. — xix, 347 p. : ill. — (Neither Wolf Nor Dog Series #2). A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school...
Foreword by Charles Trimble — World Wisdom, 2018. — 256 p. Black Elk (1863-1950), the Lakota holy man, is beloved by millions of readers around the world. The book Black Elk Speaks is the most widely-read Native American testimony of the last century and a key work in our understanding of American Indian traditions. In Black Elk, Lakota Visionary , Harry Oldmeadow draws on...
Foreword by Charles Trimble — World Wisdom, 2018. — 256 p. Black Elk (1863-1950), the Lakota holy man, is beloved by millions of readers around the world. The book Black Elk Speaks is the most widely-read Native American testimony of the last century and a key work in our understanding of American Indian traditions. In Black Elk, Lakota Visionary , Harry Oldmeadow draws on...
Open Road Media, 2007. — 180 p. The beautiful and mysterious song of the Sioux is a carefully crafted and highly individualized ritual performed to invoke the strength of the spirits in order to harness the power of nature. In this, the first literary study of a fascinating tradition, Dr. Harry W. Paige immerses himself in the Sioux society and culture to unlock the mystery of...
Open Road Media, 2007. — 180 p. The beautiful and mysterious song of the Sioux is a carefully crafted and highly individualized ritual performed to invoke the strength of the spirits in order to harness the power of nature. In this, the first literary study of a fascinating tradition, Dr. Harry W. Paige immerses himself in the Sioux society and culture to unlock the mystery of...
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2000. — 152 p. In this poignant collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own quiet but uncompromising words. Growing up and living in Minnesota and the Dakotas, Stella Pretty Sounding Flute and Iola Columbus (Dakota) and Celane Not Help Him and Cecelia Hernandez Montgomery (Lakota) share...
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2021. — 206 p. Through five generations at Pejuhutazizi (the place where they dig the yellow medicine), Teresa Peterson's family members have listened to and told stories: stories of events, migrations, and relationships in Dakota history, and stories that carry Dakota culture through tales, legends, and myths. In the 1910s, Waŋbdiṡka (Fred...
(In collaboration with Melda and Lupe Trejo) — University of Nebraska Press, 2007. — 176 p. Being Lakota explores contemporary Lakota identity and tradition through the life-story narratives of Melda and Lupe Trejo. Melda Trejo, née Red Bear (1939), is an Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge Reservation, while Lupe Trejo (1938-1999) is Mexican and a long-time resident at Pine Ridge....
University of Minnesota Press, 2019. — 304 p. How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state. Translated Nation examines literary works and oral histories by Dakhóta intellectuals from the aftermath of the 1862 U.S.–Dakota War to the present day, highlighting creative...
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002. — 214 p. In 1834 Samuel W. Pond and his brother Gideon built a cabin near Cloud Man's village of the Dakota Indians on the shore of Lake Calhoun—now present-day Minneapolis—intending to preach Christianity to the Indians. The brothers were to spend nearly twenty years learning the Dakota language and observing how the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2018. — 294 p. In All My Relatives David C. Posthumus offers the first revisionist history of the Lakotas’ religion and culture in a generation. He applies key insights from what has been called the "ontological turn", particularly the dual notions of interiority/soul/spirit and physicality/body and an extended notion of personhood, as proposed by A....
University of Chicago Press, 1988. — 258 p. Based on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N. Powers conveys what it means to be an Oglala woman. Despite the myth of the Euramerican that sees Oglala women as inferior to men, and the Lakota myth that seems them as superior, in reality,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. — 483 p. — ISBN: 978-0806124582. Sorting out the Superior Gods (Wakan Akanta), the Associate Gods (Wakan Kolaya), the Wakan Kuya (Subordinate Gods, and the Wakan Lapi (Inferior Gods) and all the words and characters was really confusing when I was trying to figure out the Lakota's "great mystery" story of the origins of their people. This...
University of Nebraska Press, 2016. — 360 p. The general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been on content rather than process within oral traditions. In this groundbreaking study of the characteristics of Lakota oral style, Delphine Red Shirt shows how its composition and structure are reflected in the work of George Sword, who composed 245 pages of text in the Lakota...
University of Nebraska Press, 2016. — 360 p. The general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been on content rather than process within oral traditions. In this groundbreaking study of the characteristics of Lakota oral style, Delphine Red Shirt shows how its composition and structure are reflected in the work of George Sword, who composed 245 pages of text in the Lakota...
University of Nebraska Press, 2002. — 242 p. — (American Indian Lives Series). Told in their own words, Turtle Lung Woman’s Granddaughter is the unforgettable story of several generations of Lakota women who grew up on the open plains of northern Nebraska and southern South Dakota. Delphine Red Shirt has delicately woven the life stories of her mother, Lone Woman, and Red Shirt’s...
University of New Mexico Press, 1998. — 172 p.
In "Before the Great Spirit" Julian Rice explores the spiritual values that informed Sioux attitudes surrounding warriors, tricksters, spirits, games, and conflict. Countering the widespread myths that both denigrate and appropriate Indian spirituality, Rice examines accounts written in the 1830s by Congregationalist ministers...
Routledge, 2016. — 288 p. Power of the Land is the first in-depth look at the past 120 years of struggle over the Oglala Lakota land base on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Paul Robertson has lived on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation since 1980. He is the current Chair of the Human Development and Social Justice Department at Oglala Lakota College.
St. Francis, SD : The Rosebud Educational Society, 1980. — viii, 112 p. ; illus. Text in English and Lakota. Father Eugene Buechel, S. J. (1874-1954), was greatly loved and respected, and memories of his life persist on the Rosebud Reservation. Several tangible contributions which also endure are a museum, a dictionary, and a plant collection. For many years, Father Buechel...
With essential contributions by Chris C. Cavender... [et al.]. — St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1993. — viii, 161 p. : ill. (some col.), maps. Spector's long term interest in feminist perspectives, and in confronting androcentric (male-centered) biases within archaeology, are given full expression. Her critiques of missionaries' and other non-Indian...
University of Nebraska Press, 1975. — 296 p.
When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as “one of the most engaging and veracious we have ever had.” It remains a landmark in Indian literature, among the first books about Indians written from the Indian point of view by an Indian....
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 240 p. This biography of Black Elk is based on extensive interviews with Lucy Looks Twice, the holy man’s last surviving child, as well as others who knew him personally. Michael F. Steltenkamp sheds new light on the figure portrayed in Black Elk Speaks as a victim of Western subjugation, doomed to live out his life as a relic of the past....
University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. — 240 p. This biography of Black Elk is based on extensive interviews with Lucy Looks Twice, the holy man’s last surviving child, as well as others who knew him personally. Michael F. Steltenkamp sheds new light on the figure portrayed in Black Elk Speaks as a victim of Western subjugation, doomed to live out his life as a relic of the past....
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. — 291 p. Nephew to Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux, Pte San Hunka (White Bull) was a famous warrior in his own right. He had been on the warpath against whites and other Indians for more than a decade when he fought the greatest battle of his life. On the afternoon of June 25, 1876, five troops of the U. S. Seventh Cavalry under the...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. — 291 p. Nephew to Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux, Pte San Hunka (White Bull) was a famous warrior in his own right. He had been on the warpath against whites and other Indians for more than a decade when he fought the greatest battle of his life. On the afternoon of June 25, 1876, five troops of the U. S. Seventh Cavalry under the...
Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Elaine A. Jahner — University of Nebraska Press, 1980. — 396 p. The real value of Lakota Belief and Ritual is that it provides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysis, as well as insightful biographical information on the man who contributed more than any other individual to our understanding of early Oglala ritual and...
Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Elaine A. Jahner — University of Nebraska Press, 1980. — 396 p. The real value of Lakota Belief and Ritual is that it provides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysis, as well as insightful biographical information on the man who contributed more than any other individual to our understanding of early Oglala ritual and...
University of Nebraska Press, 2004. — 102 p. Her great-grandfather was a famed Lakota warrior, her father a buffalo hunter, and Rosebud Yellow Robe hosted a CBS radio show in New York City. From buffalo hunting to the hub of twentieth-century urban life, this book chronicles the momentous changes in the life of a prominent Plains Indian family over three generations. At the center...
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012. — 296 p. , col. plates : ill., maps. — Much of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U.S.–Dakota War and the resulting exile that sent the majority of the Dakota to prisons and reservations beyond the state’s boundaries. But the true depth of the devastation of removal cannot be...
Compiler and editor: John Cunningham. — University of Utah Press, 2012. — 224 p. "Our people are very lucky to be here", says Albert White Hat Sr. He has lived through a time when Indians were sent to boarding schools and were not permitted to practice their own rituals. Although the Lakota people can practice their beliefs openly once again, things have changed and old ways...
Borealis Books, 2011. — 210 p. "Far greater even than the loss of land, or the relentless coercion to surrender cultural traditions, the deaths of over six hundred children by the spring of 1864 were an unbearable tragedy. Nearly one hundred and fifty years after the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862, Dakota people are still struggling with the effects of this unimaginable loss." Among...
Выходные данные неизвестны. Во время моего пребывания в резервации Сиу, Пайн-Ридж, мне посчастливилось встретить старого шамана Оглала-Сиу, Чёрного Лося (Hehaka Sapa). Он предложил мне остаться с ним, чтобы я мог узнать о их древней религии. Этот старик знал, что скоро умрет, и он не хотел, чтобы священное учение, во многом известное только ему, ушло вместе с ним. Я прожил с...
Мемуары вождя индейского племени тетон дакота оглала. В предлагаемых вниманию читателя мемуарах индейского вождя Мато Нажина «Мой народ cиу» показана трагедия одного из североамериканских индейских племен, раздавленного колонизаторами. События, описанные в мемуарах, относятся ко второй половине XIX века. До прихода бледнолицых племя cиу жило охотой на бизонов, которые...
Перевод с англ. Дзибель Г.В. — М.: Иктоми, 1996. — 97 с. Джеймс Муни был одним из самых ярких представителей той скромной плеяды этнографов Соединенных Штатов XIX в., чья работа с американскими индейцами заложила основу для дальнейшего развития академической антропологии, во главе с Францем Боасом. Он стоит в одном ряду с такими эмпирически настроенными и энергичными...
2002. — 105 с.
История жизни святого мужа из племени оглала сиу. Передана Джоном Г. Нейхардтом (Пылающей Радугой). Черный Лось (1863-1950) или Черный Олень, Эхака Сапа, был шаманом и провидцем из племени тетон-дакота; принадлежал к роду оглала. Черный Лось явился свидетелем битвы при Литтл Биг-хорн в 1876 г., когда ему было 13 лет. Прочие события его жизни достаточно подробно...
Перевод с английского: Орлиное Перо (Ерёмин А. А.) - Новосибирск, 2004. Уильям К. Пауерс является профессором и председателем Отдела Антропологии в Rutgers University. Его работы по антропологии и этномузыкологии широко издаются, он преподаёт и читает лекции в Соединенных Штатах и Европе. Он является членом Антропологической ассоциации Америки и Королевского института...
Перевод с английского: Орлиное Перо (Ерёмин А. А.) — Новосибирск, 2004. — 135 с. Уильям К. Пауерс является профессором и председателем Отдела Антропологии в Rutgers University. Его работы по антропологии и этномузыкологии широко издаются, он преподаёт и читает лекции в Соединенных Штатах и Европе. Он является членом Антропологической ассоциации Америки и Королевского института...
Перевод с англ. В.В. Бледнов. — Киев: Индейский мир, 1998. — 135 с. В течение многих лет по роду своей профессии автор был в близких отношениях с Оглалами и за это время он собрал информацию, которую мог получить от близких ему Лакота, получивших ее, в свою очередь, от многих других людей в разное время и в разных местах. Он дружил с шаманами и сам стал шаманом, так как другим...
Выходные данные неизвестны. Перевод Беляева В. Джон Файр Хромой Олень (Тахча Уште) – миннеконжу-лакота. Его жизнь – одна из ярких страниц американской истории XX века. Проживая среди белых и индейцев, он смог оценить культуру обоих народов. Цель этой книги – показать наш мир таким, каким он предстает глазам индейца: священным и нечестивым, добрым и скверным, удивительным и...
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