Kingsley M. Bray Articles

[Dietmar]

I have been asked over the last months by several people about Kingsley´s articles, which are not easy to get. I have made a list of those articles I am aware of, I strongly recommend to get these, some are still available from the websites of Historical Societies, magazines or other publishers. Try abebooks etc., too.:

• "Making the Oglala Hoop" part 1 & 2, English Westerners Society (1985)

• "Lone Horn´s Peace: A New View of Sioux-Crow Relations", Nebraska History 66, no. 1 (Spring 1985)

• "Teton Sioux Population History, 1655-1881", Nebraska History 75, no. 2 (Summer 1994)

• "Crazy Horse and the End of the Sioux War", Nebraska History 79, no. 3 (Fall 1998)

• "The Oglala Lakota and the Establishment of Fort Laramie", Museum of the Fur Trade Quaterly 36, no. 4 (Winter 2000)

• "Spotted Tail and the Treaty of 1868", Nebraska History 83, no. 1 (Spring 2002)

• "We Belong to the North: The Flights of the Northern Indians from the White River Agencies, 1877-78", Montana Magazine 55, no. 3 (Summer 2005)

• "Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life", University of Oklahoma Press, (book, 2006)

• "Omaha Rendezvous: Ethnogenesis and Warfare at a Plains Indian Trade Center", in: The People of the Buffalo (vol. 1), Tatanka Press (2007)

• " Singing the Big Bellie Song: The Making of the Robe Trade Alliance with the Lakota", Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly 43 (2007)

• "Sitting Bull and Lakota Leadership" and "Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse", (both in German language) in: Sitting Bull und seine Welt, Museum für Völkerkunde, Wien (2009)

• "Making the Sichangu Hoop: Brule Tribal Organization", in: Generous Men, Tatanka Press (2010)

• "Before Sitting Bull: Interpreting Hunkpapa Political History, 1750-1867", South Dakota History (in press ?)

[Dietmar]

...from the above, Kingsley´s article "Lone Horn´s Peace" (1985) is available online as a pdf from the Nebraska History site:

www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/1985-1-Lone_Horn.pdf

As you can read, there are some points that need to be updated or discussed (regarding Lone Horn´s father for example), but still very interesting stuff.

[dickmill]

Dietmar,

You are correct -- they are not easy to get! I've searched for ""Making the Sichangu Hoop: Brule Tribal Organization", in: Generous Men, Tatanka Press (2010)" and only conclude that it's not available yet. Is that correct?

Thanks for your efforts!

Dick

[Dietmar]

Correct, Dick. I pre-ordered the book some months ago but haven´t received it yet.

[Dietmar]

As is said in another thread, the book by Tatanka Press is out in the meantime.

Another article by Kingsley Bray is online now at Nebraska History:

"Teton Sioux Population History, 1655-1881", Nebraska History 75, no. 2 (Summer 1994)

www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/1994-Teton_Sioux.pdf

Enjoy

[kingsleybray]

'Before Sitting Bull: Interpreting Hunkpapa Political History, 1750-1867', should be published this year in the Summer issue of SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORY.

Kingsley

[emilylevine]

Looking forward to that!

[kingsleybray]

I can confirm that the Summer 2010 special Sitting Bull-themed issue of SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORY is now out, and includes my article 'Before Sitting Bull: Interpreting Hunkpapa Political History, 1750-1867', as well as Ephriam's paper on the Sitting Bull Surrender Ledger, plus a photographic essay by Frank H. Goodyear and an introductory piece on 'Sitting Bull, the Immortal' by Robert M. Utley.

[Dietmar]

Thanks for the info, I noticed that Ephriam´s "Sitting Bull Surrender Ledger" book is scheduled for December 2010.

[Dietmar]

Please look also here:

amertribes.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=books&action=display&thread=1262

[Dietmar]

There will be two new articles by our member Kingsley Bray out very soon:


- The Spring 2013 issue of the English Westerners' Society Brand Book will feature 'Sans Arc Tribal Organization and Leadership'.

For those interested, please order here:
www.westernerspublications.ltd.uk/EWS%20Index.htm


- The Spring 2013 issue of the Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly will feature 'The Lakotas and the Buffalo Robe Trade: The Season of 1838-1839'.

For those interested, please order here:
www.furtrade.org/publications/museum-quarterly/

[kingsleybray]

Confirming that the two articles mentioned by Dietmar are now in print.

'The Itazipcho Hoop: Sans Arc Lakota Tribal Organization and Leadership in the 19th Century'is in The English Westerners Society Brand Book, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Spring 2013).

'The Lakotas and the Buffalo Robe Trade: The Season of 1838-1839'is in Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Spring 2013).

Copies can be ordered through the websites Dietmar lists.

[carlo]

Nice, looking forward to reading them!

[Dietmar]

I´ve got good news from Kingsley. New articles by him will be published in the Fall 2017 issue of Nebraska History magazine. It should be out by the end of August, according to the editor.

It's going to be devoted to two articles of Kingsley:

• 'The Oglala Lakota and the Atkinson-O'Fallon Treaty of 1825'
• 'Lakota Statesmen and the Horse Creek Treaty of 1851'

It will include much new information foregrounding the role of native leaders and of men's associations like the Bull Headdress Wearers, the Miwatani, and the Kit-Fox societies. There will be a detailed analysis of the 1825 Oglala tribal camp circle. The cover will be a nice portrait of American Horse, whose preservation of Oglala traditional history is fundamental to the new discoveries that Kingsley has been privileged to access over the past couple of years -- material that is going to crucially deepen our knowledge of Lakota culture, society, and history, and the remarkable men and women that shaped it.

[Gary]

I think that we (The English Westerners' Society) still have a few copies of 'The Itazipcho Hoop: Sans Arc Lakota Tribal Organization and Leadership in the 19th Century' available.

We also have 'Sitting Bull and Lakota Leadership', together with an article by Joseph Balmer, in a publication called 'Aspects of Lakota Leadership'.

I'm also pretty sure that we have a two or three copies of 'People of the Buffalo', volumes 1 and 2.

Finally, we can supply a scanned or photocopied version of 'Making the Oglala Hoop', which I think was actually in three parts (parts 1.1, 1.2, & 2).