The Sioux : the Dakota and Lakota nations / Guy Gibbon.
| Author/creator | Gibbon, Guy E., 1939- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003. |
| Description | xii, 311 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Peoples of America Peoples of America. ^A512021 |
| Contents | Reading the Sioux. Basic Sioux history. Problems with modern history and ethnography. The Sioux as historical relic, exotica, subject, and text. Reorienting the reader. An overview of the text -- The prehistory of the Sioux, 9500 B.C.-A.D. 1650. The received view of Sioux prehistory. The anthropology and archaeology of identity. The archaeological record. Skeletal biology. Historical linguistics. A model of Sioux prehistory -- The French and English fur trade, 1650-1803. The French and English fur-trade period. Sioux culture. De-scribing historic documents. Reading maps. The archaeology of historic Sioux culture. Entangled objects. Imperfect translations. Women's roles/women's voices -- The early American period, 1803-1850. The early American period. Explaining Sioux warfare. Engendered objects and spaces. Kinship and social organization -- Fighting for survival, 1850-1889. The fight for survival. Looking through pictures. Custer's last stand? Men's clubs (associations). Traditional religion -- Assimilation and allotment, 1889-1934. Reservation dependency. Storytelling. Prophetic movements. Colonizing time. Language and colonial power -- Restoration and reorganization, 1934-1975. The re-emergence of Sioux culture. Health and disease. Sioux households. Formal education. The Dakota language : dictionaries, grammars, texts, and the ethnography of speaking -- The Sioux today : self-determination, 1975-2000. A new independence. Sioux humor. The stereotypes we know them by. Who is a Sioux? Come on and soar, we are eagles! |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-302) and index. |
| LCCN | 2002005374 |
| ISBN | 1557865663 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | E99.D1 G493 2003 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |