Research Catalog

Title

The Canadian Sioux / James H. Howard ; with a new foreword by Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks.

Author

Howard, James H. (James Henri), 1925-1982.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]

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Description

xxvi, 195 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they are the least studied of all the Sioux groups. This book, originally published in 1984, helps fill that gap in the literature and remains relevant even in the twenty-first century. Based on Howard's fieldwork in the 1970s and supplemented by written sources, The Canadian Sioux, Second Edition descriptively reconstructs their traditional culture, many aspects of which are still practiced or remembered by Canadian Sioux although long forgotten by their relatives in the United States. Rich in detail, it presents an abundance of information on topics such as tribal divisions, documented history and traditional history, warfare, economy, social life, philosophy and religion, and ceremonialism. Nearly half the book is devoted to Canadian Sioux religion and describes such ceremonies as the Vision Quest, the Medicine Feast, the Medicine Dance, the Sun Dance, warrior society dances, and the Ghost Dance. This second edition includes previously unpublished images, many of them photographed by Howard, and some of his original drawings.

Series Statement

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians

Subject

• Dakota Indians
• Indians of North America > Manitoba
• Indians of North America > Saskatchewan
• Indians of North America
• Manitoba
• Saskatchewan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Traditional Sioux culture -- Tribal divisions -- The Sioux in Canada -- Traditional history -- Warfare -- Economy -- social life -- Philosophy and religion -- Ceremonialism, the Woodlands heritage -- Ceremonialism, the Plains heritage -- The Canadian Sioux today.

ISBN

• 9780803271760 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 080327176X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780803273795 (epub)
• 0803273797 (epub)
• 9780803273801 (mobi)
• 0803273800 (mobi)
• 9780803273788 (pdf)
• 0803273789 (pdf)

LCCN

^^2014003419

OCLC

862098193

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library