Bibliograph

The Sioux, the Dakota and Lakota nations, Guy Gibbon

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The Sioux, the Dakota and Lakota nations, Guy Gibbon

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Sioux

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

49625790

Responsibility statement

Guy Gibbon

Series statement

The peoples of America

Sub title

the Dakota and Lakota nations

Table Of Contents

Reading the Sioux. Basic Sioux history. Problems with modern history and ethnography. The Sioux as historical relic, exotica, subject, and text. Re-orienting 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 -- The Sioux today : self-determination, 1975-2000. A new independence. Sioux humor. The stereotypes we know them by

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