Dakota Texts

Dakota TextsElla Deloria (18891971), one of the first Native students of linguistics and ethnography in the United States, grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation on the northern Great Plains and was trained by Franz Boas at Columbia University. Dakota Texts presents a rich array of Sioux mythology and folklore in its original language and in translation. Originally published in 1932 by the American Ethnological Society, this work is a landmark contribution to

and events that have helped shape America

skeptical eye makes such ironies both amusing and enlightening

From Uncle she gathers stories of long-ago traditions

It is the unmistakable voice of Victor

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Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science

A god will return

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Traveling to be reunited with her family in the Arctic

Many American Indians—past and present—have had the ability to use power to access wisdom