World of the Teton Sioux Indians
Subtitle: their music, life & culture
By: Frances Densmore ; edited by Joseph A. Fitzgerald ; foreword by Charles Trimble
Contributors: Fitzgerald, Joseph A., 1977- editor; Trimble, Charles E., writer of foreword
Series: The library of perennial philosophy. American Indian traditions series; Library of perennial philosophy
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc.
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Bloomington, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781936597512
Subjects: Lakota Indians; Music; History and criticism; Indians of North America
Work titles: Teton Sioux music
Description: "Sometime in August of 1913, two Sioux warriors, Old Buffalo and Swift Dog, met with Frances Densmore at a makeshift recording site in McLaughlin, South Dakota. What Old Buffalo and Swift Dog said that day--about life as they knew it before the reservation era began--lives on still in the pages of this fascinating book. Densmore went on to interview numerous Teton (or Lakota) Sioux men and women, and collected their songs as well as stories of their former way of life on the Plains. The present version is an abridged and illustrated edition of Teton Sioux Music. It has been skillfully edited to focus less on musical technicalia and more on the cultural value of Densmore's work. Its subjects include the Sun Dance, dreams, treatment of the sick, military societies, buffalo hunts, and social dances. Also included are 110 color and black-and-white illustrations, which further bring to life the world of the Teton Sioux Indians."--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published as: Teton Sioux music.

Includes bibliographical references and index.