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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
These children's books contain 4 stories to emphasize four primary virtues of the Lakota. Values among Lakota Elders were conveyed through stories and actions The thought behind these books was to highlight values, and historically, these values were brought forth through cultural events. Comes with a CD that has a Lakota song for each virtue.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Lakota Portraits weaves together vignettes of Lakotas, including both prominent and ordinary individuals, to tell the story of the Lakota people. It covers the sweep of Lakota history from earliest years, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining the question of who the Lakota people are, Joseph Agonito explores the days of nomadic freedom on the Great Plains, Lakota culture and religion, internal struggles, the coming of European...
12) Warrior is
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A narration of the life and times of Mato Niyanpi (Saved By Bear), the proud Lakota warrior who killed Lt. Col. George A. Custer at the Greasy Grass Battle aka the Little Bighorn Battle on June 25, 1876, and relates events from creation times to weeks after the battle. The story is based on Nato Niyanpi's experiences told as family oral history passed down through the generations of his lineal descendants, and offers an indigenous perspective of the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1977, Dorothy Black Crow traded worlds from mainstream America to a foreign country within the United States: the Great Sioux Nation. Though it hardly took any time for her to meet--marry--and move with Selo Black Crow--from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Pine Ridge Res, South Dakota, it took years for her to fit into the vastly different Lakota culture. Out on 800 acres of South Dakota land, Dorothy had to learn, often the hard way: *WE is more important...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling memoirist Alexandra Fuller, a debut novel. Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger towards the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota people by the federal government leads to tribal divisions...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Lakota Texts is a treasure trove of stories told in the original language by modern Lakota women who make their home in Denver. Sometimes witty, often moving, and invariably engaging and fascinating, these stories are both autobiographical and cultural"--
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