Home » All Products # DW-38, "The Lakota Way" Details  Lakota Way: by Joseph Marshall, III. Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of Native American philosophy and imparts the path to a fulfilling and meaningful life. Joseph Marshall is a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux and has dedicated his entire life to the wisdom he learned from his elders. Here he focuses on the twelve core qualities that are crucial to the Lakota way of living-bravery, fortitude, generosity, wisdom, respect, honor, perseverance, love, humility, sacrifice, truth, and compassion. Whether teaching a lesson on respect imparted by the mythical Deer Woman or the humility embodied by the legendary Lakota leader Crazy Horse, The Lakota Way offers a fresh outlook on spirituality and ethical living. 256 pages Price: $15.00 # DW-39, "The Girl who Loved Wild Horses" Details  THE GIRL WHO LOVED WILD HORSES: By Paul Goble, storytelling and art express the harmony with and love of nature which characterize Native American Culture, winner of the Chaldecott Medal, good for children. Price: $7.00 # DW-40, "Hoskila and the Red Buffalo" Details  HOSKILA AND THE RED BUFFALO: By Moses Nelson Big Crow, Ancient Traditional children’s story of the Lakota, good for children. Price: $5.00 # Dw-41, "Walking with Grandfather" Details  Walking with Grandfather: by Joseph Marshall, III. Since the tide of interest created by Black Elk Speaks over 70 years ago, Native American lineage holders have been cautious about sharing their spiritual truths to the reading public because the essence of this wisdom has been so often misunderstood. In Walking with Grandfather, authentic Lakota lineage holder and award-winning storyteller Joseph M. Marshall breaks this silence with the very best from a lifetime of lessons passed on to him by his grandfather. With him, readers gain access to the timeless teachings that until now remained largely unheard outside the culture of the Lakota people. Part of an unbroken series of narratives dating back countless centuries, this rare new transmission includes Marshall’s rendition of legendary stories such as: • "The Way of Wolves"—important lessons about parenting • "The Shadow Man"—a story on war and the warrior within us all • "Follow Me"—reflections on leaders and leadership • "The Wisdom Within"—the passage of truly becoming an elder—plus many more stories found both in the book and in the author’s own words on the accompanying audio CD. "We believe that life’s gift to us is wisdom," explains Joseph M. Marshall, "and that it is the one gift that must be given back." Join this master of traditional storytelling as he takes us through the rich oral history of the Lakota—and shows us how we can rediscover the invaluable wisdom of our elders. Hard Cover 115 pages Price: $20.00 # DW-42, "Lakota Life" Details  LAKOTA LIFE: by Ron Zeilinger, the purpose of this book is to provide an exchange of Lakota and Christian ideas, illustrated. 74 pgs, good for children. Price: $5.00 # Dw-45, "The Day the World Ended" Details  The Day the World Ended: by Joseph Marshall, III. America's westward expansion in the 19th century was far from a foregone conclusion to the thousands of indigenous peoples, whose ancient way of life lay in its path. Historian Marshall (The Journey of Crazy Horse; The Lakota Way), who was born on South Dakota's Rosebud Sioux Reservation and has long chronicled the traditions and perspective of the Great Plains tribes, explains the context and the painful aftermath of this major turning point in his people's history. His careful description of the Greasy Grass Fight of 1876 (or the Battle of the Little Bighorn) overturns the popular misconception that the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne warriors' victory over the U.S. Seventh Cavalry was a "fluke" or, worse still, "a massacre." Yet he also registers the enormity of the change that followed—including forced settlement, assimilation and dependency—when Crazy Horse surrendered his rifle to a U.S. Army officer less than a year later. Chapters alternately emphasizing strategy, weaponry, beliefs, lifestyle and other areas lend a fractured quality and some redundancy to the narrative. But Marshall's thoughtful reflections and rich detail (much of it drawn from the oral stories of unidentified Lakota elders) also immerse the reader in the experience of a once free people wrestling with an uncertain destiny. (May) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Hard Cover 288 pages Price: $15.00 # DW-46, "The Dance House" Details  The Dance House: by Joseph Marshall, III. Lakota Sioux historian and novelist Marshall (Winter of the Holy Iron) proves himself a triple threat with these powerful essays and short stories. As the subtitle suggests, the nine pieces collected here all deal with life on the author's home reservation of Rosebud in South Dakota, and it is a credit to Marshall's ability as a storyteller that the fictional stories are nearly indistinguishable from the factual essays. Subject to changes brought in by the Euro-American culture that surrounds it, Marshall's Rosebud is nevertheless a timeless place where the Sioux insist on maintaining their identity. In the title piece, when the federal government seeks to break up the reservation, the old dance house is burned, but a new one replaces it "as a place to be happy" and remember "the old days and traditional ways." Readers will be grateful to Marshall for building a dance house of the mind, one that draws on autobiography, nature writing, legend and the day-to-day adventures and misadventures of his own family and neighbors. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. 214 pages Price: $14.00 # DW-47, The Sacred Pipe" Details  Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux, recorded and edited by Joseph E Brown. 143 pages Price: $20.00 # DW-48, "Lakota Grieving" Details  Lakota Grieving-- by Stephen Huffstetter, S.C.J. A pastoral response explores the grieving practices and rituals of Lakota Catholics on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. The author proposes that Lakota people have taken rituals from both their Lakota and Christian traditions and created a merged culture to meet their grieving needs. Ethnographic interviews with the Lakota provide an overview of current grieving practices on the reservation. Lakota cultural resources that facilitate good grieving and the ways Lakota people can get stuck in their grieving are explored. The interviews and mortality data show that traumatic deaths, conflicted grieving, and multiple loss complicate grieving. The author offers principles for pastoral ministry to people in grief based on recommendations by Lakota people and from his own pastoral ministry among them. 150 pages Price: $18.00 # MP-01, "The Dakota Way of Life" Details  The Dakota Way of Life: by Ella Cara Deloria. “Ella Deloria has achieved remarkable success by her enviable scholarship and undying commitment. She has led the world into the deepest recesses of our tribal life and the secrets of it’s success. She has detailed with careful attention to the intimacies of the Dakota Oyate, the People. It is refreshing to experience the rebirth of tenets long ignored by the dominate society because it continues its claim to be superior. Ella Deloria has given generously to all of us because her heart is truly Dakota and it tells her the ultimate gift is the gift of sharing. In the Dakota way for instance, the successful hunter upon returning to camp, gives the choicest parts of the meat to those who are the least capable of providing for themselves. The donor may declare empathetically, “Nothing belongs to me personally, no more than the air we breathe. Wakan Tanka intends it to be shared by all.” The hard work has been done. Ella Deloria has given us a precious gift of herself, her talents, and her intense desire for us to learn from our elders, which means embracing the Dakota way of life. That in turn means a commitment to mutual understanding, mutual enrichment, and mutual respect. It is my hope and prayer that the Dakota Way of life will be, for educators and institutions of higher learning, as essential motivator to build on the literary treasure that has been presented to us by Ella Deloria in such an unselfish manner. At the very least, the material should be required reading. Ho, hecetu yelo, Sid Byrd-Hoksila Waste” paperback- 156 pages Price: $20.00 « Previous | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20... | Next »