Dakota texts by Ella Deloria ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Raymond J. DeMallie

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Deloria, Ella Cara

Originally published: New York : G.E. Stechert, 1932, in series: Publications of the American Ethnological Society ; v. 14. With new introd

Contents

Iktomi conquers Iya, the eater -- Iktomi takes his mother-in-law on the warpath -- Iktomi marries his daughter -- Iktomi tricks the pheasants -- Iktomi kills the Deer Boy -- Iktomi and the buffalo -- Iktomi and the raccoon-skin -- Iktomi in a skull -- Doubleface tricks a girl -- Doubleface steals the virgin -- Doubleface and the four brothers -- Coyote and bear -- Turtle -- Meadow-lark and the rattlesnake -- Boy-beloved's blanket -- Stone Boy (literal translations end here) -- The Turtle-Moccasin Boy -- The Turtle-Moccasin Boy, continued -- White-Plume Boy -- Blood-Clot Boy -- The Eagle Boy -- The hero overcomes the cold -- Heart-killer -- Two men rescue a buffalo-man's arm -- The sacred arrow -- The Feather Man -- Tazi's adventures (European) -- The blue egg (European) -- The Elk Man -- The Deer Woman -- The Deer Woman, Yankton version, in Yankton dialect -- A woman kills her daughter -- The stingy hunter -- Incest -- The wicked sister-in-law -- The man who married a buffalo woman -- The rolling skull -- The twin-spirits -- The boy with buffalo power -- A Pawnee story of aid given by the buffalo -- A woman becomes a horse -- Fish-butte -- Bewitched by the buffalo -- Owl's eyes -- Standing rock legend -- The friendship song -- The lovers -- A doubleface steals a child -- The warriors who became snakes -- She-Who-Dwells-in-the-Rocks -- A bad deed -- A man kills his friend -- The gift of the horse -- Old Woman's Lake -- A woman joins her lover in death -- How Bear Woman got her name -- A ghost story -- Two enemy scouts make an agreement -- Crow-Dakota woman -- A woman kills her husband's slayer -- Gartersnake-earing-wearers -- Owner-of-White-Buffaloes-Woman -- A man who profited by returning dead bodies of enemies -- Pouting girl finds a husband

2006

1932

Type

Texts

Translations into English

Folklore

Textes

Texts (form)

Translations

Physical description

xxxii, 279 pages 23 cm

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Dakota language

Dakota literature

Lakota Indians

Dakota (Langue)

Lakota (Indiens)

18.91 American Indian languages

Lakota

Record ID

siris_sil_795227

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