Dakota texts

Summary: Ella Deloria (1889–1971), one of the first Native students of linguistics and ethnography in the United States, grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation on the northern Great Plains and was trained by Franz Boas at Columbia University. Dakota Texts presents a rich array of Sioux mythology and folklore in its original language and in translation. Originally published in 1932 by the American Ethnological Society, this work is a landmark contribution to the study of the Sioux tribes.

Record details

ISBN: 080326660X
ISBN: 9780803266605
Physical Description: print
xxxii, 279 pages ; 23 cm
Edition: Bison books ed.
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published: New York : G.E. Stechert, 1932, in series: Publications of the American Ethnological Society ; v. 14. With new introd.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Iktomi conquers Iya, the eater -- Iktomi takes his mother-in-law on the warpath -- Iktomi marries his daughter -- Iktomi tricks the pheasants -- Iktomi kills the Deer Boy -- Iktomi and the buffalo -- Iktomi and the raccoon-skin -- Iktomi in a skull -- Doubleface tricks a girl -- Doubleface steals the virgin -- Doubleface and the four brothers -- Coyote and bear -- Turtle -- Meadow-lark and the rattlesnake -- Boy-beloved's blanket -- Stone Boy (literal translations end here) -- The Turtle-Moccasin Boy -- The Turtle-Moccasin Boy, continued -- White-Plume Boy -- Blood-Clot Boy -- The Eagle Boy -- The hero overcomes the cold -- Heart-killer -- Two men rescue a buffalo-man's arm -- The sacred arrow -- The Feather Man -- Tazi's adventures (European) -- The blue egg (European) -- The Elk Man -- The Deer Woman -- The Deer Woman, Yankton version, in Yankton dialect -- A woman kills her daughter -- The stingy hunter -- Incest -- The wicked sister-in-law -- The man who married a buffalo woman -- The rolling skull -- The twin-spirits -- The boy with buffalo power -- A Pawnee story of aid given by the buffalo -- A woman becomes a horse -- Fish-butte -- Bewitched by the buffalo -- Owl's eyes -- Standing rock legend -- The friendship song -- The lovers -- A doubleface steals a child -- The warriors who became snakes -- She-Who-Dwells-in-the-Rocks -- A bad deed -- A man kills his friend -- The gift of the horse -- Old Woman's Lake -- A woman joins her lover in death -- How Bear Woman got her name -- A ghost story -- Two enemy scouts make an agreement -- Crow-Dakota woman -- A woman kills her husband's slayer -- Gartersnake-earing-wearers -- Owner-of-White-Buffaloes-Woman -- A man who profited by returning dead bodies of enemies -- Pouting girl finds a husband.
Language Note:	Dakota with English translations.