Waggoner, Josephine, 1872-1943.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013];©2013
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- The eng in subtitle word Húnkpapȟa represented by n.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 703-726) and index.
- Foreword / Lynne Allen — Acknowledgments — Editor’s introduction / Emily Levine — Editorial policy — Lakota phonology and pronunciation — Josephine Waggoner’s family tree — Ethnography, history, her story — Introduction / Josephine Waggoner — Life sketch — Part 1. Dakota/Lakota ethnography, culture and society — Creation as told by Makhúla — The origin of fire by Makhúla — Makhúla’s dream — Sioux legends and traditions and their origins — Ancient legends of the Sioux — The arrow makers — Dakota and Lakota Oyáte band organization — Some cultural miscellany — Language — Meaning of names — Some Dakota geography — Buffalo hunt — The white buffalo — Part 2. Tribal history/her life — The cramping death — The Mackinaw (Mackinac) attack near Burnt Wood Creek (Čhanǧúyapi) — The Grattan Massacre — Fort Laramie and Horse Creek, 1865 — The Wagon Box Fight — Early life : Grand River–Apple Creek–Standing Rock, c.1870-75 — West to Powder River, 1875 — Standing Rock, Winter 1875-76 — Tȟahánská Tȟánka, John Bruguier — Standing Rock and Montana, 1876-78 — The surrender — Life on the reservation — Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1881-88 — Hampton and back to Standing Rock : working with missionaries, 1888-89 — After Sitting Bull’s death : Wounded Knee, 1890-91 — Stock rustling on the reservation — Married life — Lives of the Chiefs and other biographies — Acknowledgments / Josephine Waggoner — Part 1. Isányathi, Santee Dakota — Támahe, the one-eyed Sioux — Ištáȟba, sleepy eye — Ínkpadúta, Scarlet Point — Tȟaoyátedúta, Little Crow — Thiwakȟán, Holy House — Part 2. Ihánktȟunwan/Ihánktȟunwanna, Yankton/Yanktonai — Pȟalániyapȟápi, Struck by the Ree — Tȟatȟánkapȟa, Bull Head Sr. — Nasúnatȟánka, Big Head — Matȟó Gnaškí
- During the 1920s and 1930s, Josephine Waggoner (1871-1943), a Lakota woman who had been educated at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, grew increasingly concerned that the history and culture of her people were being lost as elders died without passing along their knowledge. A skilled writer, Waggoner set out to record the lifeways of her people and correct much of the misinformation about them spread by white writers, journalists, and scholars of the day. To accomplish this task, she traveled to several Lakota and Dakota reservations to interview chiefs, elders, traditional tribal historians, and other tribal members, including women. Published for the first time and augmented by extensive annotations, Witness offers a rare participant’s perspective on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lakota and Dakota life.
- The first of Waggoner’s two manuscripts presented here includes firsthand and as-told-to historical stories by tribal members, such as accounts of life in the Powder River camps and at the agencies in the 1870s, the experiences of a mixed-blood Hunkpapha girl at the first off-reservation boarding school, and descriptions of traditional beliefs. The second manuscript consists of Waggoner’s sixty biographies of Lakota and Dakota chiefs and headmen based on eyewitrness accounts and interviews with the men themselves.
Subjects:
- Teton Indians — History.
- Santee Indians — History.
- Yankton Indians — History.
- Dakota Indians — History.
- History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628
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