Post by emilylevine on Apr 12, 2013 15:34:03 GMT -5
Finally . . .
ready for pre-order:
Witness, A Hunkpapha Historian's Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas
Josephine Waggoner
Edited and with an introduction by Emily Levine
Foreword by Lynne Allen (Josephine's great granddaughter)
catalog copy:
During the 1920s and 1930s, Josephine Waggoner (1871–1943), a Lakota woman who had been educated at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, grew increasingly concerned that the history and culture of her people were being lost as elders died without passing along their knowledge. A skilled writer, Waggoner set out to record the lifeways of her people and correct much of the misinformation about them spread by white writers, journalists, and scholars of the day. To accomplish this task, she traveled to several Lakota and Dakota reservations to interview chiefs, elders, traditional tribal historians, and other tribal members, including women.
Published for the first time and augmented by extensive annotations, Witness offers a rare participant’s perspective on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lakota and Dakota life. The first of Waggoner’s two manuscripts presented here includes extraordinary firsthand and as-told-to historical stories by tribal members, such as accounts of life in the Powder River camps and at the agencies in the 1870s, the experiences of a mixed-blood Húŋkpapȟa girl at the first off-reservation boarding school, and descriptions of traditional beliefs. The second manuscript consists of Waggoner’s sixty biographies of Lakota and Dakota chiefs and headmen based on eyewitness accounts and interviews with the men themselves. Together these singular manuscripts provide new and extensive information on the history, culture, and experiences of the Lakota and Dakota peoples.
Emily Levine is an independent scholar and the editor of With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People’s History, by Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun and Josephine Waggoner, available in a Bison Books edition.
“Josephine Waggoner’s writings offer a unique perspective on the Lakota. Witness will become a widely referenced primary source. Emily Levine has meticulously examined all known collections of Waggoner’s manuscripts, sometimes comparing handwritten drafts with multiple typed copies to preserve information in full. Levine’s extensive notes are well chosen and informative. Witness will interest both specialist and popular audiences.”—Raymond DeMallie, Chancellors’ Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at Indiana University
link:
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Witness,675715.aspx
Sorry it's so expensive, but it's as long as two books and has over 200 b/w illustrations, 20+ color plates, maps, etc . . .
[my royalties are 5% and I'm splitting them with a fund Lynne and I set up at Dartmouth, The Josephine Waggoner Fund for undergraduate Native Studies.]
ready for pre-order:
Witness, A Hunkpapha Historian's Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas
Josephine Waggoner
Edited and with an introduction by Emily Levine
Foreword by Lynne Allen (Josephine's great granddaughter)
catalog copy:
During the 1920s and 1930s, Josephine Waggoner (1871–1943), a Lakota woman who had been educated at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, grew increasingly concerned that the history and culture of her people were being lost as elders died without passing along their knowledge. A skilled writer, Waggoner set out to record the lifeways of her people and correct much of the misinformation about them spread by white writers, journalists, and scholars of the day. To accomplish this task, she traveled to several Lakota and Dakota reservations to interview chiefs, elders, traditional tribal historians, and other tribal members, including women.
Published for the first time and augmented by extensive annotations, Witness offers a rare participant’s perspective on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lakota and Dakota life. The first of Waggoner’s two manuscripts presented here includes extraordinary firsthand and as-told-to historical stories by tribal members, such as accounts of life in the Powder River camps and at the agencies in the 1870s, the experiences of a mixed-blood Húŋkpapȟa girl at the first off-reservation boarding school, and descriptions of traditional beliefs. The second manuscript consists of Waggoner’s sixty biographies of Lakota and Dakota chiefs and headmen based on eyewitness accounts and interviews with the men themselves. Together these singular manuscripts provide new and extensive information on the history, culture, and experiences of the Lakota and Dakota peoples.
Emily Levine is an independent scholar and the editor of With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People’s History, by Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun and Josephine Waggoner, available in a Bison Books edition.
“Josephine Waggoner’s writings offer a unique perspective on the Lakota. Witness will become a widely referenced primary source. Emily Levine has meticulously examined all known collections of Waggoner’s manuscripts, sometimes comparing handwritten drafts with multiple typed copies to preserve information in full. Levine’s extensive notes are well chosen and informative. Witness will interest both specialist and popular audiences.”—Raymond DeMallie, Chancellors’ Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at Indiana University
link:
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Witness,675715.aspx
Sorry it's so expensive, but it's as long as two books and has over 200 b/w illustrations, 20+ color plates, maps, etc . . .
[my royalties are 5% and I'm splitting them with a fund Lynne and I set up at Dartmouth, The Josephine Waggoner Fund for undergraduate Native Studies.]