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Lakota tales and texts wisdom stories, customs, lives, and instruction of the Dakota peoples written and compiled by Ivan Stars, Peter Iron Shell, Eugene Buechel ; and dictated by members of the Oglala and Sicangu bands of the Southern Lakota Sioux ; edited by Paul Manhart

Catalog Data

Author:
Stars, Ivan  Search this
Buechel, Eugene  Search this
Iron Shell, Peter  Search this
Author:
Manhart, Paul  Search this
Physical description:
xliv, 399 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates illustrations 23 cm
Type:
Books
Folklore
Texts
Date:
1978
Notes:
Introductory matter in English; tales and texts in Lakota
Contents:
Falling star -- A turtle goes out to make war -- Iktomi goes thata way and meets an Iya -- Corn -- Rock boy -- The scabby belly -- The coyote helps a man -- An old woman kills many men -- The fox and Coyote ran together -- Iktomi's lice meet a wolf -- Would you know! A toad steals a boy -- the really crazy crane -- Four men grow up wild -- A man hunts for his wife and child -- rabbits stay in willows and driftwood -- The magpie wins the race -- A loose-tongued boy remains a boy -- Shooting skill -- Iktomi and the crane, or, How Iktomi tries to fly -- Iktomi and the night hawk -- Iktomi is very yellow -- Iktomi is black -- A young woman dies but goes home alive -- A young woman eats nothing for 30 days but lives -- A young man quarrels with a spirit -- The spirit chased us -- A young man pouts -- Good weasel goes to war, the Mastodon -- The spirit road (the Milky Way) -- A spirit that goes home talks -- A spirit runs off with a woman -- They say all blacks God made and how they tell now of their creation
Topic:
Lakota dialect--Texts  Search this
Lakota Indians--Social life and customs--Folklore  Search this
Lakota (Indiens)--Mœurs et coutumes--Folklore  Search this
Lakota (Langue)--Textes  Search this
Lakota dialect  Search this
Lakota Indians--Social life and customs  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_122172