Speaking of Indians / by Ella Deloria ; introduction to the Bison books edition by Vine Deloria Jr.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1998.Description: xix, 163 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 0803266146
- 9780803266148
- E99.T34 D45 1998
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"Bison books"--Page i.
Originally published: New York : Friendship Press, 1944.
pt. I. This Man Called Indian -- 1. The Indian Enters America -- 2. Tribal Languages and Culture Areas -- 3. Spiritual Culture Areas -- pt. II. "A Scheme of Life that Worked" -- 4. Kinship's Role in Dakota Life -- 5. Life in Tipi and Camp-Circle -- 6. Praying for Power -- 7. Education -- by Precept and Example -- 8. Economics: Giving to Have -- pt. III. The Reservation Picture -- 9. "The Old Order Changeth" -- 10. Life in Log Cabin and on Allotments -- 11. Christians of the First Generation -- 12. The New Education -- 13. Economics: Getting to have -- pt. IV. The Present Crisis -- 14. Indian Life in Wartime -- 15. Toward the New Community.
The author presents a study of the life of the Dakota Sioux, written in 1944, that describes their origins, language families, culture, and unique kinship system that defined them as a people.