Dance in a Buffalo Skull

Dance in a Buffalo Skull
Author: Zitkala-S̈a
Publsiher: South Dakota State Historical Society
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: PSU:000067783601

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A prowling wildcat finds a surprise in an old dried-up buffalo skull. A group of mice are dancing the night away and not paying attention to the dangers around them. Does the wildcat spell doom for the mice, or will they escape to safety? Dance in a Buffalo Skull is an American Indain tale of danger and survival on the Great Plains.

Peyote and the Yankton Sioux

Peyote and the Yankton Sioux
Author: Thomas Constantine Maroukis
Publsiher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 0806136162

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In Peyote and the Yankton Sioux, Thomas Constantine Maroukis focuses on Yankton Sioux spiritual leader Sam Necklace, tracing his family’s history for seven generations. Through this history, Maroukis shows how Necklace and his family shaped and were shaped by the Native American Church. Sam Necklace was chief priest of the Yankton Sioux Native American Church from 1929 to 1949, and the four succeeding generations of his family have been members of the Church. As chief priest, Necklace helped establish the Peyote religion firmly among the Yankton, thus maintaining cultural and spiritual autonomy even when the U.S. government denied them, and American Indians generally, political and economic self-determination. Because the message of peyotism resonated with Yankton pre-reservation beliefs and, at the same time, had parallels with Christianity, Sam Necklace and many other Yankton supported its acceptance. The Yanktons were among the first northern-plains groups to adopt the Peyote religion, which they saw as an essential corpus of spiritual truths.

American Indian Stories Legends and Other Writings

American Indian Stories  Legends  and Other Writings
Author: Zitkala-Sa
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2003-02-25
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0142437093

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A thought-provoking collection of searing prose from a Sioux woman that covers race, identity, assimilation, and perceptions of Native American culture Zitkala-Sa wrestled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she was educated at boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian relations in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tapping her troubled personal history, Zitkala-Sa created stories that illuminate the tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience. In evocative prose laced with political savvy, she forces new thinking about the perceptions, assumptions, and customs of both Sioux and white cultures and raises issues of assimilation, identity, and race relations that remain compelling today.

American Myths Legends and Tall Tales 3 volumes

American Myths  Legends  and Tall Tales  3 volumes
Author: Christopher R. Fee,Jeffrey B. Webb
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1265
Release: 2016-08-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781610695688

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A fascinating survey of the entire history of tall tales, folklore, and mythology in the United States from earliest times to the present, including stories and myths from the modern era that have become an essential part of contemporary popular culture. Folklore has been a part of American culture for as long as humans have inhabited North America, and increasingly formed an intrinsic part of American culture as diverse peoples from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania arrived. In modern times, folklore and tall tales experienced a rejuvenation with the emergence of urban legends and the growing popularity of science fiction and conspiracy theories, with mass media such as comic books, television, and films contributing to the retelling of old myths. This multi-volume encyclopedia will teach readers the central myths and legends that have formed American culture since its earliest years of settlement. Its entries provide a fascinating glimpse into the collective American imagination over the past 400 years through the stories that have shaped it. Organized alphabetically, the coverage includes Native American creation myths, "tall tales" like George Washington chopping down his father's cherry tree and the adventures of "King of the Wild Frontier" Davy Crockett, through to today's "urban myths." Each entry explains the myth or legend and its importance and provides detailed information about the people and events involved. Each entry also includes a short bibliography that will direct students or interested general readers toward other sources for further investigation. Special attention is paid to African American folklore, Asian American folklore, and the folklore of other traditions that are often overlooked or marginalized in other studies of the topic.

The Animals Came Dancing

The Animals Came Dancing
Author: Howard L. Harrod
Publsiher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2000-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816520275

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In this major overview of the relationship between Indians and animals on the northern Great Plains, the author recovers a sense of the knowledge that hunting peoples had of the animals upon which they depended and raises important questions about Euroamerican relationships with the natural world.

An Archaeology of the Soul

An Archaeology of the Soul
Author: Robert L. Hall
Publsiher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0252066022

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The richness and the range of Native American spirituality has long been noted, but it has never been examined so thoroughly, nor with such an eye for the amazing interconnectedness of Indian tribal ceremonies and practices, as in An Archaeology of the Soul. In this monumental work, destined to become a classic in its field, Robert Hall traces the genetic and historical relationships of the tribes of the Midwest and Plains--including roots that extend back as far as 3,000 years. Looking beyond regional barriers, An Archaeology of the Soul offers new depths of insight into American Indian ethnography. Hall uncovers the lineage and kinship shared by Native North Americans through the perspectives of history, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, biological anthropology, linguistics, and mythology. The wholeness and panoramic complexity of American Indian belief has never been so fully explored--or more deeply understood.

The Time of the Buffalo

The Time of the Buffalo
Author: Tom McHugh
Publsiher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1979-01-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0803281056

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Discusses the natural history of the American buffalo and its crucial role in the life of the Great Plains Indian

Old Indian Legends

Old Indian Legends
Author: Zitkala-Sa
Publsiher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2022-10-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781496209580

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Early in the century a magnificent Sioux woman named Zitkala-Sa published these legends that she learned during her childhood on the Yankton Reservation. Her eastern education developed a writing talent that was put to good use in recording from oral tradition the exploits of Iktomi the trickster, Eya the glutton, the Dragon Fly, the Blood Clot boy, and other magical and mysterious figures, human and animal, known to the Sioux. Until her death in 1938, Zitkala-Sa stood between two cultures as preserver and translator.