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Lakhota - An Indigenous History (Hardcover)
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Lakhota - An Indigenous History (Hardcover)
Series: The Civilization of the American Indian Series
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The Lakh o ta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In
popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once
lumped together with others and called the Sioux. This book tells
the full story of Lakh o ta culture and society, from their origins
to the twenty-first century, drawing on Lakh o ta voices and
perspectives. In Lakh o ta culture, "listening" is a cardinal
virtue, connoting respect, and here authors Rani-Henrik Andersson
and David C. Posthumus listen to the Lakh o ta, both past and
present. The history of Lakh o ta culture unfolds in this narrative
as the people lived it. Fittingly, Lakhota: An Indigenous History
opens with an origin story, that of White Buffalo Calf Woman
(Ptesanwin) and her gift of the sacred pipe to the Lakh o ta
people. Drawing on winter counts, oral traditions and histories,
and Lakh o ta letters and speeches, the narrative proceeds through
such periods and events as early Lakh o ta-European trading, the
creation of the Great Sioux Reservation, Christian missionization,
the Plains Indian Wars, the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee (1890),
the Indian New Deal, and self-determination, as well as recent
challenges like the #NoDAPL movement and management of Covid-19 on
reservations. This book centers Lakh o ta experience, as when it
shifts the focus of the Battle of Little Bighorn from Custer to
fifteen-year-old Black Elk, or puts American Horse at the heart of
the negotiations with the Crook Commission, or explains the Lakh o
ta agenda in negotiating the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1851. The
picture that emerges-of continuity and change in Lakh o ta culture
from its distant beginnings to issues in our day-is as sweeping and
intimate, and as deeply complex, as the lived history it
encompasses.
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