Dakota Texts medicine the pipe and the eagle

the pipe and the eagle

As biological diversity continues to shrink at an alarming rate

Roger Baldwin

"With its combination of reportage and historical context

and concrete forms

Dakota Texts medicine the pipe and the eagleElla Deloria (18891971), one of the first Native students of linguistics and ethnography in the United States, grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation on the northern Great Plains and was trained by Franz Boas at Columbia University. Dakota Texts presents a rich array of Sioux mythology and folklore in its original language and in translation. Originally published in 1932 by the American Ethnological Society, this work is a landmark contribution to