Lakota Belief and Ritual - Paperback
Lakota Belief and Ritual - Paperback
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by James R. Walker (Author), Elaine A. Jahner (Editor), Raymond J. Demallie (Editor)
A work of prime importance...its publication represents a major addition to our knowledge of the Lakotas.―Journal of American Folklore
Provides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysisBack Jacket
This volume is the first of four that will present the best and most important portions of the hundreds of pages of notes, interviews, texts, and essays that James R. Walker amassed during his eighteen years at Pine Ridge Reservation.
Author Biography
Raymond J. DeMallie, director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute and a professor of anthropology at Indiana University, is the editor of James R. Walker's Lakota Society and of The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt, both available as Bison Books. Elaine A. Jahner, a professor of English at Dartmouth College, has edited Walker's Lakota Myth, also available in a Bison Books edition.
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