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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.
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