Raymond J. DeMallie - Böcker

2018 Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award from the Western History AssociationA Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri offers the first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Truteau’s journal of his voyage on the Missouri River in the central and northern Plains from 1794 to 1796 and of his description of the upper Missouri. This fully modern and magisterial edition of this essential journal surpasses all previous editions in assisting scholars and general readers in understanding Truteau’s travels and encounters with the numerous Native peoples of the region, including the Arikaras, Cheyennes, Lakotas-Dakotas-Nakotas, Omahas, and Pawnees. Truteau’s writings constitute the very foundation to our understanding of the late eighteenth-century fur trade in the region immediately preceding the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803.An unparalleled primary source for its descriptions of Native American tribal customs, beliefs, rituals, material culture, and physical appearances, A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri will be a classic among scholars, students, and general readers alike.Along with this new translation by Mildred Mott Wedel, Raymond J. DeMallie, and Robert VÉzina, which includes facing French-English pages, the editors shed new light on Truteau’s description of the upper Missouri and acknowledge his journal as the foremost account of Native peoples and the fur trade during the eighteenth century. VÉzina’s essay on the language used and his glossary of voyageur French also provide unique insight into the language of an educated French Canadian fur trader.

In Black Elk Speaks and When the Tree Flowered, John C. Neihardt recorded the teachings of the Oglala holy man Black Elk, who had, in a vision, seen himself as the "sixth grandfather," the spiritual representative of the earth and of mankind. Raymond J. DeMallie makes available for the first time the transcripts from Neihardt's interviews with Black Elk in 1931 and 1944, which formed the basis for the two books. His introduction offers new insights into the life of Black Elk.

A work of prime importance...its publication represents a major addition to our knowledge of the Lakotas.―Journal of American FolkloreProvides raw narratives without any pretension of synthesis or analysis

As agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. Lakota Society presents the primary accounts of Walker's informants and his syntheses dealing with the organization of camps and bands, kinship systems, beliefs, ceremonies, hunting, warfare, and methods of measuring time.

Individuals of all persuasions have become deeply interested in contemporary Sioux religious practices. These essays by tribal religious leaders, scholars, and other members of the Sioux communities in North and South Dakota deal with the more important questions about Sioux ritual and belief in relation to history, tradition, and the mainstream of American life.Contents:(1) ""Lakota Belief and Ritual in the Nineteenth Century,"" by Raymond J. DeMallie;(2) ""Lakota Genesis: The Oral Tradition,"" by Elaine A. Jahner;(3) ""The Sacred Pipe in Modern Life,"" by Arval Looking Horse;(4) ""The Lakota Sun Dance: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,"" by Arthur Amiotte;(5) ""The Establishment of Christianity Among the Sioux,"" by Vine V. Deloria, Sr.;(6) ""Catholic Mission and the Sioux: A Crisis in the Early Paradigm,"" by Harvey Markowitz;(7) ""Contemporary Catholic Mission Work Among the Sioux,"" by Robert Hilbert, S.}.;(8) ""Christian Life Fellowship Church,"" by Mercy Poor Man;(9) ""Indian Women and the Renaissance of Traditional Religion,"" by Beatrice Medicine;(10) ""The Contemporary Yuwipi,"" by Thomas H. Lewis, M.D.;(11) ""The Native American Church of Jesus Christ,"" by Emerson Spider, Sr.;(12) ""Traditional Lakota Religion in Modern Life,"" by Robert Stead, with an Introduction by Kenneth Oliver; Suggestions for Further Reading; Bibliography.

Reproduced in this two-volume set are hundreds of treaties and agreements made by Indian nations - with, among others, the Continental Congress; England, Spain, and other foreign countries; the Republic of Texas and the Confederate States; railroad companies seeking rights-of-way across Indian land; and other Indian nations. Many were made with the United States but either remained unratified by Congress or were rejected by the Indians themselves after the Senate amended them. Many others are ""agreements"" made after U.S. treaty making with Indian tribes officially ended in 1871.These documents - augmented by chapter introductions that concisely set each type of treaty in its historical and political context - these documents effectively trace the evolution of American Indian diplomacy in the United States. This volume is the first major accessible compilation since Charles Kappler's 1904 Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties. As a group, these documents highlight American Indians' roles as active agents in international diplomatic affairs.