Home » All Products # DW-15, "Lakota Star Knowledge" Details  Studies in Lakota Stellar Theology by Ronald Goodman, researched from the Beuchel archives. For more than 15 years, dedicated people from Sinte Gleshka University on Rosebud Reservation interviewed elders about star knowledge of the Lakota people and also searched old records. They made computations based on actual apparent motions (i.e. precessional cycle of the earth's axis) that established ancient dates. The purpose of this book is "to return the skies to the Lakota youth" by showing what the ancient, traditional constellations are, and their significance in relation to a sacred or consecrated round (Ki Iyanka Okanchu, the racetrack) in the Black Hills, Paha Sapa. They learned that constellations -- those pictures that stars paint (woniya of Wakan Tanka, holy breath of the Great Mystery) for the receptive mind in the night sky -- they mirror geological features, places, and ceremonial occasions. "We can see now that many Lakota ceremonies were timed to mirror celestial movements," the authors write. This book compiles the knowledge they recovered over the years and demonstrates that knowledge of Lakota star and sun-watching practices is very much alive in some tribal contexts, despite centuries of acculturation and attempts by the dominant society to root out such pagan sacred observances. It also provides important lessons for other tribal groups who wish to retain more of their traditional practices for their descendants. 64 pages Price: $15.00 # DW-16, "Legends of the Mighty Sioux" Details  "Here is a compilation of forty-five legends of the famous Sioux Indians of South Dakota. All of the legends pertain to the Sioux' traditional lore, to tales told around the campfire, to legends associated with places or mountains, and battle and hunting legends. Indian foods, dances, and songs are also included." Soft Cover-158 pages. Price: $7.00 # DW-17, "Little Crow" Details  Government officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white population and a loss of hunting grounds, sought to exchange title to their homeland for annuities of cash and food, schools and teachers, and farms and agricultural knowledge. By 1862 the Sioux realized that their extensive kinship network and religion were in jeopardy and that the government would not fulfill its promises. With their way of life endangered, the Sioux turned to Little Crow to lead them in a war for self-preservation, a war that Little Crow had tried to avoid during most of his adult life. Within a year, the Sioux had been evicted from Minnesota, Little Crow was dead, and a way of life had vanished. Through his life-his biography-the complex interrelationship of Indian and white can be studied and, in some measure, understood. 259 pages Price: $18.00 # DW-18, "Mitakuye Oyasin Details  MITAKUYE OYASIN – “We Are All Related” by A.C. Ross, intriguing personal account of the spirituality and orgins of the Native American. 215.pgs. Price: $25.00 # DW-19, "Mother Earth Spirituality" Details  Ed McGaa, J.D., was born on the Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota and is a registered tribal member. He served in Korea as a Marine Corporal before earning an undergraduate degree at St. John's University in Minnesota. He then rejoined the Marine Corps to become a Phantom F4 fighter pilot in Vietnam, where he flew in more than a hundred combat missions. Upon his return McGaa danced in six annual Sioux Sun Dances. The Sun Dance led him to the seven Mother Earth ceremonies under the tutelage of Chief Eagle Feather and Chief Fools Crow, two Sioux holy men. Eagle Man holds a law degree from the University of South Dakota and is the author of Red Cloud: Biography of an Indian Chief; Mother Earth Spirituality: Healing Ourselves and Our World; Rainbow Tribe: Ordinary People Journeying on the Red Road; Native Wisdom: Perceptions of the Natural Way; and the novel Eagle Vision: Return of the Hoop. 230 pages Price: $18.00 # DW-20, "My Indian Boyhood" Details  Although the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful and productive member of Sioux society. Known as Plenty Kill, young Standing Bear belonged to the Western Sioux tribe that inhabited present-day North and South Dakota. In My Indian Boyhood he describes the home life and education of Indian children. Like other boys, he played with toy bows and arrows in the tipi before learning to make and use them and became schooled in the ways of animals and in the properties of plants and herbs. His life would be very different from that of his ancestors, but he was not denied the excitement of killing his first buffalo before leaving to attend the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. 190 pages Price: $12.00 # DW-21, "My People the Sioux" Details  When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as “one of the most engaging and veracious we have ever had.” It remains a landmark in Indian literature, among the first books about Indians written from the Indian point of view by an Indian. Born in the 1860s, the son of a Lakota chief, Standing Bear was in the first class at Carlisle Indian School, witnessed the Ghost Dance uprising from the Pine Ridge Reservation, toured Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and devoted his later years to the Indian rights movement of the 1920s and 1930s. 288 pages Price: $13.00 # DW-22, "Myths and Legends of the Sioux" Details  MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE SIOUX: by Marie l. McLaughlin, one of the first Sioux legend books from the South Dakota Standing Rock Reservation. 200 pgs. Price: $15.00 # DW-24, "The Pipe and Christ" Details  by William Stolzman, SJ, this book is a result of a six-year dialogue between Sioux medicine man and Christian missionaries on the Rosebud Reservation. 222 pages Price: $22.00 # DW-25, "Sioux Indian Religion" Details  Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks, essays by tribal religious leaders, scholars and other members of the Sioux communities in North and South Dakota, 236 pages Price: $20.00 « Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10... | Next »