Filled with true stories, legends, and descriptions of traditional
Dakota Sioux life, this book is a unique record of a people whose
existence was engulfed and forever changed by the westward
expansion of the United States. It is also the story of the Deloria
family. Vine Deloria's grandfather, Chief Tipi Sapa (Philip Joseph
Deloria), provided the detailed portrait of the Yankton band of the
Dakota Nation that is the centerpiece of this book. In 1917 this
great 19th-century leader told the story of the Yankton people to
an informant, drawing both on his own experiences and on the
accounts passed down by other elders of the Yankton band. In
addition to describing spiritual beliefs, rituals, and traditions
of all kinds, he recounted the stories and songs that bound the
community together.
Vine Deloria has expanded the story of the Dakota people with
material handed down in his family. In his introductory chapters,
Deloria revisits ancestral territory, telling the life stories of
his grandfather and his greatgrandfather Saswe (Francois des
Laurier), a medicine man whose vision experience would have
profound effects on his descendants. Both men played prominent
roles in the religious life of the Yankton and Standing Rock Sioux.
The Deloria family stories help us understand the revolutionary
changes the Sioux were experiencing during this period, and they
offer a poignant contrast to Tipi Sapa's descriptions of a
distinctive way of life that was already lost to the on rush of
history.
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