George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition ceremony Mann shows how the post-Columbian

Mann shows how the post-Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe

Having spent all of his life steeped in and influenced by linear Western science

historical accounts have most often described the Ghost Dance from the perspective of the white Americans who opposed it

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George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition ceremony Mann shows how the post-ColumbianThe general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been in the study of content rather than process in oral traditions. In a new disclosure of the characteristics of Lakota oral style, Delphine Red Shirt shows how its composition and structure are reflected in the work of George Sword, who composed 245 pages of text in the Lakota language using the English alphabet. What emerges in Sword's Lakota narratives are the formulaic patterns inherent in