Being Dakota,9780873514538

Being Dakota

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ISBN13: 9780873514538
ISBN10: 087351453X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-07-01
Publisher(s): Minnesota Historical Society Pr
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Summary

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a few members of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota community in northeastern South Dakota worked quietly to preserve the customs and stories of their ancestors in the face of federal government suppression and the opposition of organised religion. Oneroad and Skinner collected descriptions of everyday life, including material culture, tribal organisation, and ceremonies that marked the individual's passage from birth to death. Several of the folk tales relate the exploits of Iktomi, the trickster, in rare, early, unexpurgated versions. Others tell of adventures of such figures as the Child of Love, Star Born, and the Mysterious Turtle.

Author Biography

Amos E. Oneroad moved in two worlds. Educated in traditional Dakota ways, he also earned a divinity degree from Columbia University and become a Presbyterian minister. In 1914 he began working with Alanson B. Skinner, a student of anthropology whom he met in New York City. Oneroad wrote these stories; Skinner planned to edit and publish the work. But Skinner?s untimely death in 1925 thwarted their plans, and the manuscript languished for seventy-five years in a California library. Laura L. Anderson, who teaches anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, has edited this unusual document, which offers a fresh look at what it means to be Dakota.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Introduction 3(1)
The Sisseton-Wahpeton Community
3(19)
Amos Enos Oneroad (Mahpiyasna)
22(15)
Alanson Buck Skinner
37(11)
The Manuscript
48(5)
A Note on Editorial Procedures
53(1)
Photographs
53(2)
Sisseton and Wahpeton Traditions and Customs
55(64)
Civil and Military Organization
57(19)
Tribal Divisions
57(7)
Officers, Government, Warriors, and War Customs
64(12)
Social Life and Organizations
76(12)
Societies and Ceremonies
76(12)
Life of the Individual
88(14)
Dakota Naming Customs
88(2)
Puberty, Fasting, and Dreaming
90(6)
Courtship, Marriage, Polygamy, and Divorce
96(2)
Mortuary Customs and the Hereafter
98(4)
Material Culture
102(17)
Houses, Costumes, etc.
102(1)
Dress
102(2)
Dwellings
104(3)
Household Utensils
107(6)
Games
113(6)
Sisseton and Wahpeton Tales and Folklore
119(80)
Introduction
121(2)
The Adventures of Iktomi
Iktomi and His Member
123(1)
Iktomi and the Bathing Girls
123(1)
Iktomi and the Mysterious Raccoon
123(1)
Iktomi and the Gopher
124(1)
Iktomi Is Caught in a Skull
124(1)
Iktomi and the Elk
125(2)
Iktomi and the Nighthawk
127(1)
Iktomi and the Turkey Buzzard
128(1)
Iktomi Has Revenge upon the Buzzard
129(1)
Iktomi and the Ducks
129(1)
Iktomi and the Artichoke
130(1)
Iktomi and the Roseberries
131(1)
Iktomi and the Two Girls
132(1)
Iktomi and the Raccoon Family
132(4)
Iktomi and the Fox
136(2)
Iktomi and the Hare
138(1)
Iktomi Visits the Squirrel
139(1)
Iktomi and the Beaver
140(1)
Iktomi and the Buffalo
141(2)
The Adventures of Mastina, The Hare
Hare and His Grandmother
143(1)
Hare and the Bear Hunt
144(1)
Hare and the Early Riser
145(1)
Other Stories
The Child of Love
146(9)
The Mouse and the Buffalo
155(1)
The Legend of Hoop Ravine
156(10)
The Raccoon and the Crawfish
166(3)
Turtle and His Warparty
169(2)
The Woodpecker and the Crane
171(4)
The Mysterious Man
175(1)
The Man Who Was Changed to a Pickerel
176(2)
The Mysterious Turtle
178(1)
The Toad Who Stole a Boy
178(2)
The Flying Man
180(2)
Star Born
182(6)
The Origin of the Medicine Dance
188(3)
Tales
A Migration Tale
191(1)
How a Heyoka Got His Medicine
191(1)
A Boy Joker
192(1)
Contest between Thunder-bird and Monster
193(1)
A Witch Story
194(1)
A Berdache Story
195(1)
A War Story
196(3)
Appendix 199(2)
Bibliography 201(8)
Index 209

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