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This collection offers state-of-the-field work in Great Plains ethnohistory, both contemporary and historical, covering the traditional anthropological subfields of ethnography, culture history, archaeology, and linguistics.
List of contents
Introduction: Ethnohistory in the 21st Century
Rani Henrik Andersson, Logan Sutton, and Thierry Veyrié Chapter 1 A Foot in the Field, A Foot in the Archive, and A Keen Editorial Eye: The Making of an Ethnohistorian
Joanna C. Scherer and Thierry VeyriéPart 1 Changing Identities in the Indigenous Societies of the Great Plains Chapter 2 From Deslauriers to Deloria: French Identity in a Sioux Indian Family
Raymond J. DeMallie Chapter 3 Lakota Modernities and the Ends of History: Little Big Man, Crow Dog, and Red Tomahawk in Context
Sebastian F. Braun Chapter 4 “Although He Had the Ways of a Woman, He Was a Great Warrior”: Kúsaat in Nineteenth Century Pawnee and Arikara Society
Mark van de Logt Chapter 5 Hungry Narratives Turned on their Head (or Danced on their Toes?): Towards Decolonial Listening in Ethnohistorical Practice
Sarah Quick Chapter 6 Paradigms and Poetry: John G. Neihardt’s
Cycle of the West Francis FlavinPart 2 Symbols and Ceremonialism Chapter 7 From the Litter to the Horse: The Native American Ritual of “Lifting”
Gilles Havard Chapter 8 Remapping Northern Arapaho Space and Place in Plains Ethnohistory
Jeffrey D. Anderson Chapter 9 “
TiweNAsaakari¿I nikuwetiresWAtwaáhAt aniinuuNUxtaahiwaáRA”: An Overview of Arikara Spirituality
Brad KuuNUx TeeRIt Kroupa Chapter 10 “Under the Tree that Never Bloomed I sat and Cried because it Faded Away”: An Ethnohistory of Black Elk’s Visions
Rani Henrik AnderssonPart 3 Kinship and Language Chapter 11 Comanche Society on the Reservation, 1875–1926: A Patrilineal Hypothesis. The Case of the
Ketahto Yamparika Thomas W. Kavanagh Chapter 12 Linguistic Evidence of Contact between Northern Caddoan and Siouan Languages: Arikara-Pawnee Verbal Classifiers
Logan Sutton Chapter 13 Wooden Boatmen, Spirits, and Bushy Eyebrows: American Indian Names for the French in North America
Douglas R. Parks Afterword by Philip J. Deloria
About the author
Rani-Henrik Andersson is an associate professor of North American studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the author of
Lak¿óta: An Indigenous History and
The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 (Nebraska, 2008), among other works.
Logan Sutton is a language material developer, researcher, and teacher for the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation Culture and Language Department on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota.
Thierry Veyrié is the director of the Language Program at the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe and editor, with Raymond DeMallie, of Ella Cara Deloria’s
The Dakota Way of Life (Nebraska, 2022).
Summary
This collection offers state-of-the-field work in Great Plains ethnohistory, both contemporary and historical, covering the traditional anthropological subfields of ethnography, culture history, archaeology, and linguistics.
