Before the Great Spirit: The Many Faces of Sioux Spirituality
By: Responsibility: Julian Rice
Edition: First edition
Publisher: University of New Mexico
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780826318688
Copyright date: 1998 University of New Mexico Press
Description: In Before the Great Spirit Julian Rice explores the spiritual values that informed Sioux attitudes surrounding warriors, tricksters, spirits, games, and conflict. Countering the widespread myths that both denigrate and appropriate Indian spirituality, Rice examines accounts written in the 1830s by Congregationalist ministers Samuel and Gideon Pond and Stephen R. Riggs; Ella Deloria, a Yankton Nakota linguist; Wilson D. Wallis, a Canadian anthropologist; native Lakota George Bushotter; and physician James R. Walker in order to delineate clearly Sioux thought from the biases and perspectives of these observers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index.
Table of contents: label: Illustrations
title: ix; label: Acknowledgments
title: xi; label: Orthographic Note
title: xiii; label: Chapter 1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2
title: Warriors
pagenum: 19; label: Chapter 3
title: Tricksters
pagenum: 37; label: Chapter 4
title: Heroes
pagenum: 57; label: Chapter 5
title: Symbols
pagenum: 77; label: Chapter 6
title: Games
pagenum: 87; label: Chapter 7
title: Thunders
pagenum: 99; label: Chapter 8
title: Heyokas
pagenum: 115; label: Chapter 9
title: Walker
pagenum: 129; label: Chapter 10
title: Spirits
pagenum: 141; label: Chapter 11
title: Conclusion
pagenum: 158; label: Works Cited
title: 163; label: Index
title: 171