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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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2021 Scholarly Writing Award in the Saskatchewan Book Awards This
book presents two of the most important traditions of the Dakota
people, the Red Road and the Holy Dance, as told by Samuel Mniyo
and Robert Goodvoice, two Dakota men from the Wahpeton Dakota
Nation near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. Their accounts of
these central spiritual traditions and other aspects of Dakota life
and history go back seven generations and help to illuminate the
worldview of the Dakota people for the younger generation of
Dakotas, also called the Santee Sioux. "The Good Red Road," an
important symbolic concept in the Holy Dance, means the good way of
living or the path of goodness. The Holy Dance (also called the
Medicine Dance) is a Dakota ceremony of earlier generations.
Although it is no longer practiced, it too was a central part of
the tradition and likely the most important ceremonial organization
of the Dakotas. While some people believe that the Holy Dance is
sacred and that the information regarding its subjects should be
allowed to die with the last believers, Mniyo believed that these
spiritual ceremonies played a key role in maintaining connections
with the spirit world and were important aspects of shaping the
identity of the Dakota people. In The Red Road and Other Narratives
of the Dakota Sioux, Daniel Beveridge brings together Mniyo and
Goodvoice's narratives and biographies, as well as songs of the
Holy Dance and the pictographic notebooks of James Black (Jim
Sapa), to make this volume indispensable for scholars and members
of the Dakota community.
The Hudson's Bay Company had been operating for nearly two
centuries when young Isaac Cowie joined it in 1867. He sailed from
the Shetland Islands to Rupert's Land, finally reaching York
Factory, where he awaited his assignment. Company of Adventurers
describes the early, lusty history of the HBC and the years of
Cowie's service, when manufactured goods were driving out the
demand for furs and buffalo hides. It contains rare information
about the Assiniboin and Plains Crees Indians during the period
before their confinement to reservations.
Alive to the historical and ethnographic value of his writing,
Cowie tells about his tenure as a clerk (later manager) at Fort
Qu'Appelle in southern Saskatchewan, the colorful personalities who
served with him, the wide-ranging fur brigades, remote outposts,
and the Company's relations with Indian tribes. He was the first
white man known to have set foot within the Swift Current District
when in 1868 he hunted buffalo there. His dealings with the Metis
during the Red River Rebellion placed him where history was being
made.
In an introduction to this Bison Book edition, David Reed Miller
discusses how Cowie fitted into a great commercial enterprise and
how he became a victim of unpleasant circumstances that forced his
retirement in 1891.
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Indian Boyhood (Paperback)
Charles A. Eastman; Introduction by David Reed Miller
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R446
Discovery Miles 4 460
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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"Indian Boyhood" (1902) was the literary debut of Charles A.
Eastman (Ohiyesa), a Santee Sioux whose eleven books aimed at
bringing whites and Indians closer together. The favorable
reception of the autobiographical Indian Boyhood would lead him to
write such classic works as "Old Indian Days" (1907), "Wig warn
Evenings: Sioux Folk Tales Retold" (with Elaine Goodale Eastman,
1909), "The Soul of the Indian" (1911), "From the Deep Woods to
Civilization" (1916), and "Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains"
(1918), all reprinted as Bison Books.
At the beginning of "Indian Boyhood" Eastman recalls the 1862
Sioux Uprising in Minnesota that sent his family into exile in
Canada. He describes his childhood there, which ended when his
father, who had been presumed dead, appeared to take him back to
the United States. An Indian boy's training, child-hood games,
harvesting and feasts, legends told around a campfire--Eastman
relates all aspects of the rich traditional life of the Santee
Sioux, which had already passed away by the time this book was
published.
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