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Lakota myth / James R. Walker ; edited by Elaine A. Jahner.
- Title
- Lakota myth / James R. Walker ; edited by Elaine A. Jahner.
- Author
- Walker, J. R. (James R.), 1849-
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1983.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N.A.REL. W 152 lm | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 428 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Publisher description: The papers of James R. Walker, physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914, are noted for the information they have yielded about Lakota life and culture. This third volume of previously unpublished material from the Walker collection presents his work with Lakota myth and legend. Three categories of literature are represented: tales that are classic examples of Lakota oral literature, narratives that were known only to a few Oglala holy men, and Walker's literary cycle representing his attempts to systematize all he had learned about Lakota myth.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Folklore
- Folklore.
- Note
- "Published in cooperation with the Colorado Historical Society."
- "A Bison book, BB 848"--Spine.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [407]-411.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- When the people laughed at the moon -- Stone Boy -- The Buffalo Woman -- The Mysterious Lake -- Iktomi -- Lame Rabbit -- The Pte Cycle.
- ISBN
- 0803247265 (hard)
- 0803297068 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^83003454^
- OCLC
- 9324144
- SCSB-10393899
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library