Lakota Society

by Walker, James R.

• ISBN13: 9780803297371
• ISBN10: 0803297378
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-02-01
• Publisher: Bison Books

Summary

As agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. Lakota Society presents the primary accounts of Walker's informants and his syntheses dealing with the organization of camps and bands, kinship systems, beliefs, ceremonies, hunting, warfare, and methods of measuring time.

Author Biography

Raymond J. DeMallie is a professor of anthropology and director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University. Other volumes of James R. Walker's Lakota documents also available as Bison Books are Lakota Belief and Ritual, edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Elaine A. Jahner, and Lakota Myth, edited by Elaine A. Jahner.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
The Structure of Society	p. 1
Legend of the Camp Circle. John Blunt Horn. (chs)	p. 13
The Seven Council Fires. Antoine Herman and James R. Walker. (chs)	p. 14
Divisions of the Lakotas	p. 18
Notes on Oglala Bands	p. 20
Camps. Spotted Elk	p. 21
A Camp of the Oglala Lakotas	p. 22
A Camp	p. 22
Bands, Chiefs, and Laws	p. 23
How New Bands and Chiefs Were Made. Bad Bear. (antoine Herman and Nicholas Janis, Interpreters.) (chs)	p. 25
Akicita. Thomas Tyon. July 4, 1897. (amnh)	p. 28
Original Lakota Government	p. 29
Big Bellies Society. Anonymous. Recorded by Richard Nines. 1911-12. (amnh)	p. 35
Chiefs. Woman Dress. Recorded by Richard Nines. February 16, 1912. (amnh)	p. 36
Chiefs. Red Feather. Recorded by Richard Nines. 1912. (amnh)	p. 38
Chiefs. Iron Tail. Recorded by Richard Nines. February 26, 1912. (amnh)	p. 39
Men's and Women's Roles. No Ears. (amnh)	p. 40
Friendship. Anonymous. Recorded by Richard Nines. September 1912. (amnh)	p. 40
Marriage and Divorce	p. 41
Oglala Kin Relationships	p. 44
Oglala Kinship Terms	p. 46
Oglala Social Customs	p. 50
Hunting, War, Ceremony, and Art	p. 69
Communal Chase of the Buffalo. James R. Walker. (chs)	p. 74
War Pipe. Anonymous. Recorded by Richard Nines. 1911-12. (amnh)	p. 95
Ritual Cleansing. Anonymous. Recorded by Richard Nines. 1911-12. (amnh)	p. 96
The Sun Dance. High Bear. Recorded by Richard Nines. 1911. (amnh)	p. 97
Arts of the Sioux Indians. James R. Walker. (CHS)	p. 99
Symbols. Seven Rabbits. (CHS)	p. 107
Time and History	p. 109
Divisions of Time. James R. Walker. (chs)	p. 122
The No Ears, Short Man, and Iron Crow Winter Counts. Translated by the Editor. (chs and Amnh)	p. 124
the Authorities	p. 169
Phonetic Key	p. 171
Notes	p. 173
Bibliography	p. 187
Index	p. 195
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