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The Sioux : the Dakota and Lakota nations
- Title
- The Sioux : the Dakota and Lakota nations / Guy Gibbon.
- Author
- Gibbon, Guy E., 1939-
- Publication
- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2003.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JGE 03-54 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Mezzanine |
Details
- Description
- xii, 311 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- The peoples of America
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-302) and index.
- Contents
- Reading the Sioux. Basic Sioux history. Problems with modern history and ethnography. The Sioux as historical relic, exotica, subject, and text. Reorienting the reader. An overview of the text -- The prehistory of the Sioux, 9500 B.C.-A.D. 1650. The received view of Sioux prehistory. The anthropology and archaeology of identity. The archaeological record. Skeletal biology. Historical linguistics. A model of Sioux prehistory -- The French and English fur trade, 1650-1803. The French and English fur-trade period. Sioux culture. De-scribing historic documents. Reading maps. The archaeology of historic Sioux culture. Entangled objects. Imperfect translations. Women's roles/women's voices -- The early American period, 1803-1850. The early American period. Explaining Sioux warfare. Engendered objects and spaces. Kinship and social organization -- Fighting for survival, 1850-1889. The fight for survival. Looking through pictures. Custer's last stand? Men's clubs (associations). Traditional religion -- Assimilation and allotment, 1889-1934. Reservation dependency. Storytelling. Prophetic movements. Colonizing time. Language and colonial power -- Restoration and reorganization, 1934-1975. The re-emergence of Sioux culture. Health and disease. Sioux households. Formal education. The Dakota language : dictionaries, grammars, texts, and the ethnography of speaking -- The Sioux today : self-determination, 1975-2000. A new independence. Sioux humor. The stereotypes we know them by. Who is a Sioux? Come on and soar, we are eagles!
- Call Number
- JGE 03-54
- ISBN
- 1557865663 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002005374
- OCLC
- 49625790
- Author
- Gibbon, Guy E., 1939-
- Title
- The Sioux : the Dakota and Lakota nations / Guy Gibbon.
- Imprint
- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2003.
- Series
- The peoples of America
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-302) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JGE 03-54