Post by gregor on Aug 11, 2010 15:15:46 GMT -5
Greetings from Germany!
On and off german friends ask me where I get my information about the Lakota people and what are my sources. In addition to contemporary publications by Utley, Larson, Ostler, Bray, Hyde and many others, I use particular sources, such as free books and www.archive.org.
On archive.org we find for example scans of many census rolls of all Lakota / Sioux reservations. For example Crow Creek Census (1886 – 1939), Pine Ridge Census (1886 – 1943), Rosebud census (1886 – 1939), Cheyenne River Census (1886 – 1942) and Standing Rock Census (1885 – 1934). See here for example :
www.archive.org/details/indiancensusroll362unit or
www.archive.org/details/indiancensusroll547unit
On archive.org you will also find a whole library of free historic books, just type “Sioux” or “Dakota” etc. into the searchfield and you get among others (some links included):
Allison, Edwin Henry (1891)
The Surrender of Sitting Bull: Being a Full and Complete History of the Negotiations Conducted ...
www.archive.org/details/surrendersittin00alligoog
Bolton, Herbert Eugene (1890ies?)
New light on Manuel Lisa and the Spanish fur trade -
Densmore, Frances (1918)
Teton Sioux music (Volume no. 61)
De Barthe, Joseph (1894)
The life and adventures of Frank Grouard : chief of scouts, U. S. A.
Fechet, Edmond J (1891)
The true story of the death of Sitting Bull, great Sioux medicine man
Kingsbury, David Lansing (1889)
Sully's expedition against the Sioux in 1864 –
Luttig, John C., (1920)
Journal of a fur-trading expedition on the upper Missouri 1812-1813
Mooney, James (1896)
The Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
www.archive.org/details/ghostdancerelig00moongoog
Parkman, Francis (1849)
Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail –
Poole, Dewitt Clinton (1881)
Among the Sioux of Dakota: Eighteen Months Experience as an Indian Agent
www.archive.org/details/amongsiouxdakot00poolgoog
Textor, Lucy Elizabeth (1896)
Official Relations Between the United States and the Sioux Indians
www.archive.org/details/officialrelatio00textgoog
Walker, Judson Elliott (1881)
Campaigns of General Custer in the North-west, and the final surrender of Sitting Bull
www.archive.org/details/campaignsgenera00walkgoog
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble (1875)
Preliminary report of explorations in Nebraska and Dakota, in the years 1855-'56-'57
www.archive.org/details/preliminaryrepo02warrgoog
Welsh, Herbert (1883)
Report of a visit to the great Sioux reserve, Dakota, made during the months of May and June, 1883, in behalf of the Indian rights associations –
United States. BIA (1875)
Report of the Commission appointed to treat with the Sioux Indians for the relinquishment of the Black Hills
and of course most works of Stanley Vestal and Doane Robinson.
With regard of Stanley Vestal: his complete research correspondence and sources are published on this webside of the Oklahoma University:
digital.libraries.ou.edu/whc/nam/collection.asp?cID=1224&sID=7
Last, but not least – another good source is the American Museum of Natural History and the collection of Anthropological Papers. Here we find works of Clark Wissler and J.R. Walker; see here
digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/6//simple-search?query=dakota&submit=Search+&pubs=ant
Of course we have to judge each book or report carefully. But each book or report and each fact or assertion (right or wrong) is a piece to complete the jigsaw puzzle.
So, that’s all for now. Please share other free of charge (but priceless) sources.
Yours Gregor ;D
On and off german friends ask me where I get my information about the Lakota people and what are my sources. In addition to contemporary publications by Utley, Larson, Ostler, Bray, Hyde and many others, I use particular sources, such as free books and www.archive.org.
On archive.org we find for example scans of many census rolls of all Lakota / Sioux reservations. For example Crow Creek Census (1886 – 1939), Pine Ridge Census (1886 – 1943), Rosebud census (1886 – 1939), Cheyenne River Census (1886 – 1942) and Standing Rock Census (1885 – 1934). See here for example :
www.archive.org/details/indiancensusroll362unit or
www.archive.org/details/indiancensusroll547unit
On archive.org you will also find a whole library of free historic books, just type “Sioux” or “Dakota” etc. into the searchfield and you get among others (some links included):
Allison, Edwin Henry (1891)
The Surrender of Sitting Bull: Being a Full and Complete History of the Negotiations Conducted ...
www.archive.org/details/surrendersittin00alligoog
Bolton, Herbert Eugene (1890ies?)
New light on Manuel Lisa and the Spanish fur trade -
Densmore, Frances (1918)
Teton Sioux music (Volume no. 61)
De Barthe, Joseph (1894)
The life and adventures of Frank Grouard : chief of scouts, U. S. A.
Fechet, Edmond J (1891)
The true story of the death of Sitting Bull, great Sioux medicine man
Kingsbury, David Lansing (1889)
Sully's expedition against the Sioux in 1864 –
Luttig, John C., (1920)
Journal of a fur-trading expedition on the upper Missouri 1812-1813
Mooney, James (1896)
The Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
www.archive.org/details/ghostdancerelig00moongoog
Parkman, Francis (1849)
Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail –
Poole, Dewitt Clinton (1881)
Among the Sioux of Dakota: Eighteen Months Experience as an Indian Agent
www.archive.org/details/amongsiouxdakot00poolgoog
Textor, Lucy Elizabeth (1896)
Official Relations Between the United States and the Sioux Indians
www.archive.org/details/officialrelatio00textgoog
Walker, Judson Elliott (1881)
Campaigns of General Custer in the North-west, and the final surrender of Sitting Bull
www.archive.org/details/campaignsgenera00walkgoog
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble (1875)
Preliminary report of explorations in Nebraska and Dakota, in the years 1855-'56-'57
www.archive.org/details/preliminaryrepo02warrgoog
Welsh, Herbert (1883)
Report of a visit to the great Sioux reserve, Dakota, made during the months of May and June, 1883, in behalf of the Indian rights associations –
United States. BIA (1875)
Report of the Commission appointed to treat with the Sioux Indians for the relinquishment of the Black Hills
and of course most works of Stanley Vestal and Doane Robinson.
With regard of Stanley Vestal: his complete research correspondence and sources are published on this webside of the Oklahoma University:
digital.libraries.ou.edu/whc/nam/collection.asp?cID=1224&sID=7
Last, but not least – another good source is the American Museum of Natural History and the collection of Anthropological Papers. Here we find works of Clark Wissler and J.R. Walker; see here
digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/6//simple-search?query=dakota&submit=Search+&pubs=ant
Of course we have to judge each book or report carefully. But each book or report and each fact or assertion (right or wrong) is a piece to complete the jigsaw puzzle.
So, that’s all for now. Please share other free of charge (but priceless) sources.
Yours Gregor ;D