Post by Historian on Aug 6, 2009 15:48:21 GMT -5
The following are what I consider to be some worthwhile publications I have read over the years, concerning historical or contemporary Lakota/Dakota culture.
While there are a just few of the books I did not care for, either because of the author's attitude at the time it was written, or because of some inaccuracies, I still feel they are worth reading, in order to give the reader a broader perspective.
There are other books on the list, in my opinion, that no library should be without.
Lastly, in the instances when a certain book has has multiple printings, I have tried to list the original printing date.
Arden, Harvey and Arvol Looking Horse, Paula Horn
2001. White Buffalo Teachings. HYT Publishing.
Bad Hand, Howard
2001. Native American Healing. Keats McGraw-Hill.
Belle, Nicholas I.
2004. Dancing Toward Pan-Indianism: The Development of the Grass Dance and Northern Traditional Dance in Native American Culture. MA thesis. Dept. of Anthropology, Florida State University, FL.
Bettelyoun, Susan Bordeaux and Josephine Waggoner, Emily Levine
1998. With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History. University of Nebraska Press.
Brown, Dee
1970. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York: Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston. Austin, TX.
Brown, Joseph Epes and Nicholas Black Elk, Ben Black Elk
1953. The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK.
Browner, Tara.
2002. Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow. University of Illinois Press, Chicago, IL.
Bucko, Raymond
1998. The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE.
Catches, Sr., Pete S. and Peter V. Catches, Jr.
1999. Sacred Fireplace (Oceti Wakan): Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man. Clear Light Books.
Catlin, George
1841. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Traditions of North American Indians. 2 Volumes, Tosswill & Myers, London, England. (Reprinted as Letters and Notes on the North American Indian. Ross and Haynes, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, 1965)
Crow Dog, Leonard and Richard Erdoes
1995. Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men. Harper Collins Publishers, NY.
DeMallie, Raymond J., editor
1984. The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE.
DeMallie, Raymond J. and P. Albers, Beatrice Medicine, eds
1983. “Male and Female in Traditional Lakota Culture" in The Hidden Half. University Press of America, Lanham, MD.
Densmore, Frances
1918. Teton Sioux Music. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 61. Smithsonian Institution, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. (Reprinted as Teton Sioux Music and Culture by Frances Densmore; University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 1992)
Dorsey, Rev. James Owen
1886. Migration of Siouan Tribes. The American Naturalist, Vol. 20, No. 3
Enochs, Ross Alexander
1996. The Jesuit Mission to the Lakota Sioux: Pastoral Theology and Ministry, 1886-1945. Sheed & Ward.
Erdoes, Richard and Archie Fire Lame Deer
1992. Gift of Power: The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man. Bear & Co, Santa Fe, NM.
Erdoes, Richard and John Fire Lame Deer
1973. Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions: The Life Of A Sioux Medicine Man. Simon & Schuster.
Erdoes, Richard and Mary Crow Dog
1991. Lakota Woman. Harper Perennial Publishers, 1991
Feraca, Stephen E.
1998. Wakinyan: Lakota Religion in the Twentieth Century. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE.
Fowler, L. and R.O. Selig ed.
2004. “Whose Past Is It Anyway? Plains Indian History” in Anthopology Explored: the Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books.
Glover, Vic
2004. Keeping Heart on Pine Ridge: Family Ties, Warrior Culture, Commodity Foods, Rez Dogs and the Sacred. Native Voices
Green, Jerry and John Vance Lauderdale
1996. After Wounded Knee. Michigan State University Press.
Greene, Jerome A.
1991. Yellowstone Command: Colonel Nelson A. Miles and the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877. University of Nebraska Press.
Hand, Jr., Floyd and Marc A. Huminilowycz (Editor)
1998. Learning Journey on the Red Road. Learning Journey Communications.
Hassrick, Royal B.
1964. The Sioux: Life and Customs of a Warrior Society. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Holder, P.
1974. The Hoe & the Horse on the Plains. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
James, Edwin.
1823. Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and 1820. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, N.C. Carey and I. Lea, Phiadelphia, PA.
Larson, Robert W.
2007. Gall: Lakota War Chief. University of Oklahoma Press.
Lewis, Thomas H.
1992. The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing. University of Nebraska Press.
Little Elk, David
1987. Wicoh'an Otehike: The Difficult Path. Hehaka7 Productions, Dupree, SD.
Long Soldier, Tilda and Mark St. Pierre
1995. Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers, Medicine Women of the Plains. Simon & Schuster.
Lowie, Robert H.
1916. Dance Associations of the Eastern Dakota. Anthropological Papers, American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 11, Pt. 2, New York City, NY.
1954. Indians of the Plains. Doubleday and Co., Inc. NY.
Mails, Thomas E.
1972. The Mystic Warriors of the Plains. Garden City, New York: Doubleday.
1978. Sundancing at Rosebud and Pine Ridge. Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD. (Reprinted as Sundancing: The Great Sioux Piercing Ceremony, by Thomas E. Mails, Council Oak Books, 1998).
1985. Plains Indians: Dog Soldiers, Bear Men and Buffalo Women. Bonanza Books, New York.
Mails, Thomas E. and Frank Fools Crow, Dallas Chief Eagle
1979. Fools Crow. University of Nebraska Press.
1991. Fools Crow: Wisdom and Power. Council Oak Books.
Marriott, Alice and Carol Rachin
1975. Plains Indian Mythology. Thomas Crowell.
Marshall, III, Joseph M.
1992. Soldiers Falling into Camp: The Battles at the Rosebud and the Little Big Horn. Affiliated Writers of America.
1994. Winter of the Holy Iron. Red Crane Books.
1995. On Behalf of the Wolf and the First Peoples. Red Crane Books.
1998. The Dance House: Stories from Rosebud. Red Crane Books.
2002. The Lakota Way: Stories & Lessons for Living. Viking Compass Publishers.
2004. The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History. Viking Compass Publishers.
2005. Walking with Grandfather: The Wisdom of Lakota Elders. Sounds True, Inc.
2006. Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance. Sterling Publishing Co, Inc.
2007. The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History. Viking Press
2007. Hundred in the Hand. Fulcrum Publishing
McGee, W. J.
1897. The Siouan Indians, a Preliminary Sketch. Bureau of American Ethnology, 15th Annual Report 1893-94, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
McHugh, Tom
1979. Time of the Buffalo. University of Nebraska Press.
Mooney, James
1896. The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890. Bureau of American Ethnology, 14th Annual Report, part 2. Smithsonian Institution. (Reprinted in 1965, University of Chicago Press).
Neihardt, John G.
1932. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Nerburn, Kent
2002. Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads With an Indian Elder. New World Publishers.
Orchard, William C.
1929. Beads and Beadwork of the American Indian. Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation, New York.
Powers, Marla
1986. Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual and Reality. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Powers, William K.
1962. The Sioux Omaha Dance. American Indian Tradition Newsletter, Vol. 8, No. 3.
1969. Indians of the Northern Plains. G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY.
1977. Oglala Religion. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
1982. Yuwipi, Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
1986. Sacred Language: The Nature of Supernatural Discourse in Lakota. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
1987. Beyond the Vision: Essays on American Indian Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
1990. War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.
1994. Pow-wow, Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia. edited by Mary B. Davis, Garland Publishing, New York.
Price, Catherine
1996. The Oglala People, 1841-1879: A Political History. University of Nebraska Press.
Rice, Julian
1998. Before the Great Spirit: The Many Faces of Sioux Spirituality. University of New Mexico Press.
Riggs, Stephen R.
1893. Dakota Grammar, Texts and Ethnography. Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. 9.
Royce, Charles C.
1899. Indian Land Cessions in the United States. Bureau of American Ethnology, 18th Annual Report 1896-97, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Skinner, Alanson B.
1919. Notes on the Sun Dance of the Sisseton Dakota. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 16, No. 4.
Smith, Rex Alan
1981. Moon of Popping Trees. University of Nebraska Press.
Stolzman, SJ, Fr. William
1986. The Pipe and Christ: A Christian-Sioux Dialogue. Tipi Press, Chamberlain, SD.
St Pierre, Mark and Tilda Long Soldier
1996. Walking in a Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers, Medicine Women of the Plains. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Utley, Robert
1993. The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull. New York: Henry Hold and Company.
Vestal, Stanley
1984. Warpath: The True Story of the Fighting Sioux Told in a Biography of Chief White Bull. University of Nebraska Press.
Walker, James R.
1917. The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of the Teton Dakota. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 16.
Walker, James R. and Raymond J. DeMallie, Elaine A. Jahner, ed.
1982. Lakota Society. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
1983. Lakota Myth. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
1991. Lakota Belief and Ritual. University of Nebraska Press
White, Phillip M.
1998. The Native American Sun Dance Religion and Ceremony: An Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press.
Wissler, Clark
1906. Diffusion of Culture in the Plains of North America. Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists, Vol. 15, Quebec, Canada.
1912. Societies and Ceremonial Associations in the Oglala Division of the Teton-Dakota. Anthropological Papers, American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 11, No. 1, New York.
1915. Costumes of the Plains Indians. Anthropological Papers, American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 17, No.2. New York.
1916. General Discussion of Shamanistic and Dancing Societies. Anthropological Papers, American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 11, No. 12, New York.
Young Bear, Severt and Ronnie Theisz
1994. Standing in the Light: A Lakota Way of Seeing. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE.
While there are a just few of the books I did not care for, either because of the author's attitude at the time it was written, or because of some inaccuracies, I still feel they are worth reading, in order to give the reader a broader perspective.
There are other books on the list, in my opinion, that no library should be without.
Lastly, in the instances when a certain book has has multiple printings, I have tried to list the original printing date.
Arden, Harvey and Arvol Looking Horse, Paula Horn
2001. White Buffalo Teachings. HYT Publishing.
Bad Hand, Howard
2001. Native American Healing. Keats McGraw-Hill.
Belle, Nicholas I.
2004. Dancing Toward Pan-Indianism: The Development of the Grass Dance and Northern Traditional Dance in Native American Culture. MA thesis. Dept. of Anthropology, Florida State University, FL.
Bettelyoun, Susan Bordeaux and Josephine Waggoner, Emily Levine
1998. With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History. University of Nebraska Press.
Brown, Dee
1970. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York: Holt, Rhinehart, and Winston. Austin, TX.
Brown, Joseph Epes and Nicholas Black Elk, Ben Black Elk
1953. The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK.
Browner, Tara.
2002. Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow. University of Illinois Press, Chicago, IL.
Bucko, Raymond
1998. The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE.
Catches, Sr., Pete S. and Peter V. Catches, Jr.
1999. Sacred Fireplace (Oceti Wakan): Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man. Clear Light Books.
Catlin, George
1841. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Traditions of North American Indians. 2 Volumes, Tosswill & Myers, London, England. (Reprinted as Letters and Notes on the North American Indian. Ross and Haynes, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, 1965)
Crow Dog, Leonard and Richard Erdoes
1995. Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men. Harper Collins Publishers, NY.
DeMallie, Raymond J., editor
1984. The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE.
DeMallie, Raymond J. and P. Albers, Beatrice Medicine, eds
1983. “Male and Female in Traditional Lakota Culture" in The Hidden Half. University Press of America, Lanham, MD.
Densmore, Frances
1918. Teton Sioux Music. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 61. Smithsonian Institution, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. (Reprinted as Teton Sioux Music and Culture by Frances Densmore; University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 1992)
Dorsey, Rev. James Owen
1886. Migration of Siouan Tribes. The American Naturalist, Vol. 20, No. 3
Enochs, Ross Alexander
1996. The Jesuit Mission to the Lakota Sioux: Pastoral Theology and Ministry, 1886-1945. Sheed & Ward.
Erdoes, Richard and Archie Fire Lame Deer
1992. Gift of Power: The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man. Bear & Co, Santa Fe, NM.
Erdoes, Richard and John Fire Lame Deer
1973. Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions: The Life Of A Sioux Medicine Man. Simon & Schuster.
Erdoes, Richard and Mary Crow Dog
1991. Lakota Woman. Harper Perennial Publishers, 1991
Feraca, Stephen E.
1998. Wakinyan: Lakota Religion in the Twentieth Century. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE.
Fowler, L. and R.O. Selig ed.
2004. “Whose Past Is It Anyway? Plains Indian History” in Anthopology Explored: the Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books.
Glover, Vic
2004. Keeping Heart on Pine Ridge: Family Ties, Warrior Culture, Commodity Foods, Rez Dogs and the Sacred. Native Voices
Green, Jerry and John Vance Lauderdale
1996. After Wounded Knee. Michigan State University Press.
Greene, Jerome A.
1991. Yellowstone Command: Colonel Nelson A. Miles and the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877. University of Nebraska Press.
Hand, Jr., Floyd and Marc A. Huminilowycz (Editor)
1998. Learning Journey on the Red Road. Learning Journey Communications.
Hassrick, Royal B.
1964. The Sioux: Life and Customs of a Warrior Society. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Holder, P.
1974. The Hoe & the Horse on the Plains. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
James, Edwin.
1823. Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and 1820. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, N.C. Carey and I. Lea, Phiadelphia, PA.
Larson, Robert W.
2007. Gall: Lakota War Chief. University of Oklahoma Press.
Lewis, Thomas H.
1992. The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing. University of Nebraska Press.
Little Elk, David
1987. Wicoh'an Otehike: The Difficult Path. Hehaka7 Productions, Dupree, SD.
Long Soldier, Tilda and Mark St. Pierre
1995. Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers, Medicine Women of the Plains. Simon & Schuster.
Lowie, Robert H.
1916. Dance Associations of the Eastern Dakota. Anthropological Papers, American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 11, Pt. 2, New York City, NY.
1954. Indians of the Plains. Doubleday and Co., Inc. NY.
Mails, Thomas E.
1972. The Mystic Warriors of the Plains. Garden City, New York: Doubleday.
1978. Sundancing at Rosebud and Pine Ridge. Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD. (Reprinted as Sundancing: The Great Sioux Piercing Ceremony, by Thomas E. Mails, Council Oak Books, 1998).
1985. Plains Indians: Dog Soldiers, Bear Men and Buffalo Women. Bonanza Books, New York.
Mails, Thomas E. and Frank Fools Crow, Dallas Chief Eagle
1979. Fools Crow. University of Nebraska Press.
1991. Fools Crow: Wisdom and Power. Council Oak Books.
Marriott, Alice and Carol Rachin
1975. Plains Indian Mythology. Thomas Crowell.
Marshall, III, Joseph M.
1992. Soldiers Falling into Camp: The Battles at the Rosebud and the Little Big Horn. Affiliated Writers of America.
1994. Winter of the Holy Iron. Red Crane Books.
1995. On Behalf of the Wolf and the First Peoples. Red Crane Books.
1998. The Dance House: Stories from Rosebud. Red Crane Books.
2002. The Lakota Way: Stories & Lessons for Living. Viking Compass Publishers.
2004. The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History. Viking Compass Publishers.
2005. Walking with Grandfather: The Wisdom of Lakota Elders. Sounds True, Inc.
2006. Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance. Sterling Publishing Co, Inc.
2007. The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History. Viking Press
2007. Hundred in the Hand. Fulcrum Publishing
McGee, W. J.
1897. The Siouan Indians, a Preliminary Sketch. Bureau of American Ethnology, 15th Annual Report 1893-94, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
McHugh, Tom
1979. Time of the Buffalo. University of Nebraska Press.
Mooney, James
1896. The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890. Bureau of American Ethnology, 14th Annual Report, part 2. Smithsonian Institution. (Reprinted in 1965, University of Chicago Press).
Neihardt, John G.
1932. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Nerburn, Kent
2002. Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads With an Indian Elder. New World Publishers.
Orchard, William C.
1929. Beads and Beadwork of the American Indian. Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation, New York.
Powers, Marla
1986. Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual and Reality. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Powers, William K.
1962. The Sioux Omaha Dance. American Indian Tradition Newsletter, Vol. 8, No. 3.
1969. Indians of the Northern Plains. G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY.
1977. Oglala Religion. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
1982. Yuwipi, Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
1986. Sacred Language: The Nature of Supernatural Discourse in Lakota. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
1987. Beyond the Vision: Essays on American Indian Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
1990. War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.
1994. Pow-wow, Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia. edited by Mary B. Davis, Garland Publishing, New York.
Price, Catherine
1996. The Oglala People, 1841-1879: A Political History. University of Nebraska Press.
Rice, Julian
1998. Before the Great Spirit: The Many Faces of Sioux Spirituality. University of New Mexico Press.
Riggs, Stephen R.
1893. Dakota Grammar, Texts and Ethnography. Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. 9.
Royce, Charles C.
1899. Indian Land Cessions in the United States. Bureau of American Ethnology, 18th Annual Report 1896-97, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Skinner, Alanson B.
1919. Notes on the Sun Dance of the Sisseton Dakota. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 16, No. 4.
Smith, Rex Alan
1981. Moon of Popping Trees. University of Nebraska Press.
Stolzman, SJ, Fr. William
1986. The Pipe and Christ: A Christian-Sioux Dialogue. Tipi Press, Chamberlain, SD.
St Pierre, Mark and Tilda Long Soldier
1996. Walking in a Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers, Medicine Women of the Plains. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Utley, Robert
1993. The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull. New York: Henry Hold and Company.
Vestal, Stanley
1984. Warpath: The True Story of the Fighting Sioux Told in a Biography of Chief White Bull. University of Nebraska Press.
Walker, James R.
1917. The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of the Teton Dakota. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 16.
Walker, James R. and Raymond J. DeMallie, Elaine A. Jahner, ed.
1982. Lakota Society. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
1983. Lakota Myth. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
1991. Lakota Belief and Ritual. University of Nebraska Press
White, Phillip M.
1998. The Native American Sun Dance Religion and Ceremony: An Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press.
Wissler, Clark
1906. Diffusion of Culture in the Plains of North America. Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists, Vol. 15, Quebec, Canada.
1912. Societies and Ceremonial Associations in the Oglala Division of the Teton-Dakota. Anthropological Papers, American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 11, No. 1, New York.
1915. Costumes of the Plains Indians. Anthropological Papers, American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 17, No.2. New York.
1916. General Discussion of Shamanistic and Dancing Societies. Anthropological Papers, American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 11, No. 12, New York.
Young Bear, Severt and Ronnie Theisz
1994. Standing in the Light: A Lakota Way of Seeing. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE.