Plains

Arapaho Tipi - Smithsonian, ca. 1870s

The materials on this page are intended for use by students enrolled in CORE 116-66 The Sacred Journey and ANTH 329 North American Indians. This page and its references are periodically up-dated.

Contents

• Web Sites
• Bibliography
• Music

Web Sites

• Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leadership Council Good source of information on the tribes of these two states, with links to their home page.
• Crow Nation
• Little Bighorn College (Crow)
• Chief Plenty Coups State Park (Crow)
• Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains   Created with grant support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant Program, this online image database highlights the photographic and visual record of current and former Indian groups from the Northern Great Plains.
• Crow Sundance Photo Gallery.  The photo sequence portrays the sweat bath and fasting rituals, and the Sundance ceremony, including construction of the lodge and the key elements of the ritual, primarily in its contemporary form.  Photographer include Edward Curtis, Sally Old Coyote and others.
• Tom Yellowtail biography with interview segments on the "Maker" (from 1974), and on "Burnt Face and the Medicine Wheel" (from 1993).
• Discussion and outline structures of "rites of passage."

Music You will need to access this music through a RealPlayer.

• Crow Lullaby, sung by Susie Old Horn, in her Crow Agency home in 1974

Bibliography

Anderson, Jeffery

2001  The Four Hills of Life: Northern Arapaho Knowledge and Life Movement.  Linclon and London: University of Nebraska Press. 

Barth, Georg

1993 Native American Beadwork: Traditional Beading Techniques for the Modern-Day Beadworker. Stevens Point, WI.: R. Schneider.

Baker, Olaf

1981 Where the Buffaloes Begin. Frederick Warne.

Bowers, Alfred

1950 Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization. University of Chicago Press.

1965 Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 194. Smithsonian Institution.

Brown, Joseph Epes

1953 The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux. University of Oklahoma Press.

Bucko, Raymond

1998  The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice.  University of Nebraska Press.

Bullchild, Percy

1985 The Sun Came Down. (Blackfoot). Harper and Row.

Densmore, Frances

1918 Teton Sioux Music. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 61. Smithsonian Institution.

Dooling, D. M.

1984 The Sons of the Wind: Sacred Stories of the Lakota. Parabola Books.

Dorsey, George

1903 Traditions of the Arapaho. Field Columbian Museum, Anthropological Series, volume 5.

1903 Arapaho Sun Dance. Field Columbian Museum, Anthropological Series, volume 4.

 1903 (1997) Traditions of the Caddo.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

1904 (1995) Mythology of the Wichita.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

1906 (1997) The Pawnee Mythology.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

Dusenberry, Verne

1962 The Montana Cree: A Study in Religious Persistence. Almquist and Wiksell.

Ewers, John

            1980  Horse in Blackfoot Culture.  Smithsonian Institution Press.

            1983  Blackfeet.  University of Oklahoma Press.

Fletcher, Alice

1904 The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony. Bureau of American Ethnology, 22nd Annual Report. Smithsonian Institution.

Fitzgerald, Michael Oren

1991 Yellowtail: Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief. University of Oklahoma Press.

Frey, Rodney

1987 The World of the Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges. University of Oklahoma Press.

1995 Stories That Make the World: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest. As Told by Lawrence Aripa, Tom Yellowtail and other Elders. University of Oklahoma Press

Grinnell, George Bird

1961 Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales. University of Nebraska Press.

1971 By Cheyenne Campfires. University of Nebraska Press.

1972 Blackfoot Lodge Tales. Corner House.

Harrod, Howard.

1987 Renewing the World: Plains Indian Religion and Morality. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

2000 The Animals Come Dancing. Tucson: University of Arizona Press

Hoxie, Frederick

1995 Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lame Deer, John and Richard Erdoes

1972 Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions. (Sioux). Simon and Schuster.

Lassiter, Luke

1998 The Power of Kiowa Song: A Collaborative Ethnography. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.

Linderman, Frank

1930 Plenty Coups: Chief of the Crows. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

1932 Pretty Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Lowie, Robert

1918 Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 23.

1922 The Religion of the Crow Indians. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 25.

1935 The Crow Indians. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

1960 Crow Texts. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

1960 Crow Word Lists: Crow-English and English-Crow Vocabularies. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Marriott, Alice. 

        1945 The Ten Grandmothers. (Kiowa) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Marriott, Alice and Carol Rachin

1975 Plains Indian Mythology. Thomas Crowell.

McHugh, Tom

            1979 Time of the Buffalo.  University of Nebraska Press.

Medicine Crow, Joseph

1992 From the Heart of Crow Country. Orion Books.

Mooney, James

1896 The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890. Bureau of American Ethnology, 14th Annual Report, part 2. Smithsonian Institution.

Momaday, N. Scott

1969 The Way to Rainy Mountain. (Kiowa) University of New Mexico Press.

Nabokov, Peter

1967 Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior. Thomas Y. Crowell.

Neihardt, John

1932 Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Parks, Douglas R.

1996 Myths and Traditions of the Arikara Indians.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

Powell, Peter

1969 Sweet Medicine: The Continuing Role of the Sacred Arrows, the Sun Dance, and the Sacred Buffalo Hat in Northern Cheyenne History, volumes 1 and 2. University of Oklahoma Press.

Powers, Marla

1986 Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual and Reality. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Powers, William

1982 Oglala Religion. University of Nebraska Press.

Snell, Alma Hogan  and Becky Matthews, ed.

2000  Grandmother’s Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life.  Foreword by Peter Nabokov.  Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

St Pierre, Mark and Tilda Long Soldier

1996 Walking in a Sacred Manner. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Voget, Fred

1984 The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

1995 They Call Me Agnes: A Crow Narrative Based on the Life of Agnes Yellowtail Deernose. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press.

Walker, James R.

1917 The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of the Teton Dakota. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 16.

1982 Lakota Society. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

1983 Lakota Myth. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Wallace, Ernst and E. Adamson Hoebel. 

1952  The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Weltfish, Gene.

1965  The Lost Universe: Pawnee Life and Culture.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Wildschut, William

1959 Crow Indian Beadwork: A Descriptive and Historical Study. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, volume 17.

1975 Crow Indian Medicine Bundles. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, volume 17.

Wissler, Clark

1912 Ceremonial Bundles of the Blackfoot Indians. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 7.

Wissler, Clark and D. C. Duvall

1909 Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 2.

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