Description
A physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914, Walker's papers reveal much about Lakota oral literature, myths, and legneds.
About the Author
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).
Reviews
"A primary source of research and serious study. . . . Ethnology at its best."-American Indian Culture and Research Journal
"One of the major publications of American Indian myth."-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
"An immensely interesting and provocative addition to the literature of the Plains Indians."-North Dakota History
Book Information
ISBN 9780803298606
Author James R. Walker
Format Paperback
Page Count 428
Imprint Bison Books
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Weight(grams) 499g