James R. Walker was a physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914. His accounts of this time, taken from his personal papers, reveal much about Lakota life and culture. This third volume of previously unpublished material from the Walker collection presents his work on Lakota myth and legend. This edition includes classic examples of Lakota oral literature, narratives that were known only to a few Oglala holy men, and Walker's own literary cycle based on all he had learned about Lakota myth. Lakota Myth is an indispensable source for students of comparative literature, religion, and mythology, as well as those interested in Lakota culture.
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“A primary source of research and serious study. . . . Ethnology at its best.”—American Indian Culture and Research Journal
(American Indian Culture and Research Journal )“One of the major publications of American Indian myth.”—Reviews in Anthropology
(Reviews in Anthropology )“[Elaine Jahner] is sensitive to the analysis of texts, sensitive to meanings hidden between the cracks of texts and correspondences, and sensitive and generous to the scholars—Sioux and non-Indian alike—who preceded her in collecting and analyzing the myths and cultural detail of the Teton Dakota Sioux.”—Pacific Historical Review
(Pacific Historical Review )“An immensely interesting and provocative addition to the literature of the Plains Indians.”—North Dakota History
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Elaine A. Jahner (1942–2003) was a professor of English and Native American studies at Dartmouth College and the author of Spaces of the Mind: Narrative and Community in the American West (Nebraska 2004). Raymond J. DeMallie is a professor of anthropology at Indiana University and the editor of The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk’s Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt (Nebraska 1984).
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In a November 1919 interview for a Denver newspaper, James R. Walker stated that he was indebted to many Oglalas, but "most of all ... to George Sword." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Stone Boy, South Wind, Crazy Buffalo, Left Heron, Anog Ile, Great Bear, Lame Rabbit, Bad Wound, East Wind, Wakan Tanka, Anog Ite, George Sword, Sun Dance, Winged One, Mini Watu, Wooing Wohpe, Mysterious Beings, The Buffalo Woman, Winged God, Colorado Historical Society, God Tatanka, Little Boy Man, Nagi Tanka, The Mysterious Lake New!
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In a November 1919 interview for a Denver newspaper, James R. Walker stated that he was indebted to many Oglalas, but "most of all ... to George Sword." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Stone Boy, South Wind, Crazy Buffalo, Left Heron, Anog Ile, Great Bear, Lame Rabbit, Bad Wound, East Wind, Wakan Tanka, Anog Ite, George Sword, Sun Dance, Winged One, Mini Watu, Wooing Wohpe, Mysterious Beings, The Buffalo Woman, Winged God, Colorado Historical Society, God Tatanka, Little Boy Man, Nagi Tanka, The Mysterious Lake New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Lakota Belief and Ritual by James R. Walker on 20 pages
- Dakota Texts by Ella Cara Deloria on 10 pages
- Speaking of Indians by Ella Cara Deloria in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Lakota Society by James R. Walker in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Study of Siouan Cults by James Owen Dorsey in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- American Indian Persistence and Resurgence (a boundary 2 book) by Karl Kroeber on 7 pages
- Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Helen Jaskoski on 5 pages
- The Sons of the Wind: The Sacred Stories of the Lakota by D. M. Dooling on 4 pages
- Women Intellectuals, Modernism, and Difference: Transatlantic Culture, 1919-1945 (Cultural Margins) by Alice Gambrell on 4 pages
- Sioux Indian Religion: Tradition and Innovation by Raymond J. DeMallie in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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