The Canadian Sioux

Resource Information

The work The Canadian Sioux represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Canadian Sioux

Statement of responsibility

James H. Howard ; with a new foreword by Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks

Creator

• Howard, James H., (James Henri), 1925-1982

Author

• Howard, James H., (James Henri), 1925-1982

Subject

• Electronic books
• HISTORY -- Canada -- General
• HISTORY -- Native American
• Indians of North America
• Indians of North America -- Manitoba
• Indians of North America -- Saskatchewan
• Manitoba
• Saskatchewan
• Dakota Indians
• Dakota Indians

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they are the least studied of all the Sioux groups. This book, originally published in 1984, helps fill that gap in the literature and remains relevant even in the twenty-first century. Based on Howard's fieldwork in the 1970s and supplemented by written sources, The Canadian Sioux, Second Edition descriptively reconstructs their traditional culture, many aspects of which are still practiced or remembered by Canadian Sioux although long forgotten by their relatives in the United States. Rich in detail, it presents an abundance of information on topics such as tribal divisions, documented history and traditional history, warfare, economy, social life, philosophy and religion, and ceremonialism. Nearly half the book is devoted to Canadian Sioux religion and describes such ceremonies as the Vision Quest, the Medicine Feast, the Medicine Dance, the Sun Dance, warrior society dances, and the Ghost Dance. This second edition includes previously unpublished images, many of them photographed by Howard, and some of his original drawings

Member of

• Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians

Cataloging source

N$T

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians