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Post by emilylevine on Oct 4, 2014 10:19:06 GMT -5
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Post by emilylevine on Oct 2, 2014 15:17:27 GMT -5
When I found the Meany papers while working on Josephine Waggoner's book I was amazed at the number of interviews and the wealth of information. I have family in Seattle, so was able to go to the UW University Archives one xmas and read them. I copied a bunch of them and was able to give---via a friend--Hollow Horn Bear's interview to his descendant Albert White Hat. He had never seen it and was glad to have it. I see one role of non native historians being helping to facilitate the return of tribal history to the people. The long-standing oral history-keeping was so disrupted by boarding schools; it only takes one generation to lose history that had been kept for hundreds of years. There are some advantages to writing things down like white people do. Taking children to boarding schools was a theft of the culture from the people. Especially a theft of the historical memory. Non native historians of the Lakota have an obligation to help, in a very small way, to make this right.
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Post by emilylevine on Sept 11, 2014 21:34:30 GMT -5
This is indeed sad news. I had not heard from Jack in some time---and wondered if this was why. As another person who was the recipient of Jack's phone calls--every Thursday---I can say that he was always encouraging for my own work and always hunting down some thread of Lakota history to satisfy his curiosity and passion. He is missed. Like Kingsley wrote, it is sad to know that there will be no more calls.
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Post by emilylevine on May 16, 2014 0:02:56 GMT -5
Ladonna, wonderful work--as always. Thank you.
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Post by emilylevine on Apr 23, 2014 15:27:54 GMT -5
Hi all I don't really have anything to add to this discussion but I just wanted to say what a great thread this has been, from Ephriam's first post until Gregor's recent contribution. It is the sort of information and exchange that one can only find on this forum I think. Great stuff. Thanks to everyone. em
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Post by emilylevine on Apr 11, 2014 21:54:24 GMT -5
Nice to see this great source on line!
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Post by emilylevine on Apr 11, 2014 21:52:39 GMT -5
Wonderful, Kingsley!
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Post by emilylevine on Jan 8, 2014 17:33:06 GMT -5
Beautiful words, LaDonna. Thank you.
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Post by emilylevine on Jan 5, 2014 14:02:56 GMT -5
Nice work, Gregor! I had the pleasure to meet Phil Deloria (Vine, Jr.'s son) a few years ago. He is carrying on the family tradition with his teaching at the University of Michigan and his own writing: Indians in Unexpected Places. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. ISBN 978-0-7006-1459-2. Playing Indian. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-300-08067-4. See www.lsa.umich.edu/ac/people/americanculturefaculty/ci.deloriaphilipj_ci.detailAlso of interest is the Ella Deloria Archive, an on line repository of her notes, manuscripts, etc.: zia.aisri.indiana.edu/deloria_archive/index.phpand Ella's sister Susan, a painter who used her mother's name (Mary Sully) for her artwork. I think she did the drawings in Speaking of Indians.
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Post by emilylevine on Jan 1, 2014 14:32:56 GMT -5
I just received a copy of this book from a friend of mine who is an editor at Harvard University Press. In addition to it being a stunningly produced volume, Lakota War Book From the Little Bighorn has well-researched introductory material on the historical setting, plains ledger art, war books, the history of this particular ledger, etc. Also includes well done maps. It is a complete facsimile of the entire ledger book with analysis of the drawings and info on the men who made them. A handsome, informative, useful volume packed with information. Castle McLaughlin did a great job; her work is invaluable. As noted above, the ledger itself is now available for viewing on line.
Happy New year to all of you.
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Post by emilylevine on Dec 9, 2013 19:22:21 GMT -5
Great stuff Dietmar and Graham! Thanks.
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Post by emilylevine on Nov 16, 2013 11:47:11 GMT -5
Gregor and Dietmar Thank your kind words.
Re: the images: I knew I wanted a lot of images in the book and the Press told me that with today's technology black and white are just as cheap as printing a page of text. Finding them all took a lot of time---and of course one has to pay for scans and use fees. Many of the images are ones that Waggoner collected herself to include in her book---it's amazing they survived all this time and were only recently discovered. The color images were another story. I wanted ledger book drawings because I wanted Lakota-generated images for a Lakota-generated text. And much of what Waggoner writes about was not photographed of course. One of Waggoner's great-granddaughters procured a VERY large grant so that I could include the color illustrations.
In two weeks, over 60 descendants are gathering in Denver to celebrate the book and thank me. A bit embarrassing, but it will be amazing to meet them all. Many parts of the family don't know each other and have never met. It is Josephine's book that is bringing them together.
Do read the Afterword if you are interested in the history of the manuscripts---it's kind of hidden between her last chapter and the appendices.
And please rate/review on Amazon, Good Reads, Google Books, if you are so inclined.
I hope you all enjoy this new Lakota text by an amazing Hunkpapa historian.
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Post by emilylevine on Nov 11, 2013 23:31:25 GMT -5
I believe the one labeled Red Cloud is Tamahe. (See Waggoner, Witness and Eastman, Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains.)
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Post by emilylevine on Oct 25, 2013 23:40:59 GMT -5
Wow, too bad they haven't responded to you. Would be a simple matter for them to copy it for you. Next time I'm at the Historical Society here (LIncoln, NE) I'll try to remember and get it for you.
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Post by emilylevine on Oct 16, 2013 22:43:47 GMT -5
Available now.
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