Publisher's Synopsis
?This important book is a cultural gem.??Choice ?A major contribution to Plains Indian Studies.??Peter Nabokov, editor of Native American Testimony ?An indigenous perspective on life that shows us a different world.??Vine Deloria, Jr., author of Custer Died for Your Sins Amos E. Oneroad moved in two worlds. Educated in traditional Dakota ways, he also earned a divinity degree from Columbia University and become a Presbyterian minister. In 1914 he began working with Alanson B. Skinner, a student of anthropology whom he met in New York City. Oneroad wrote these stories; Skinner planned to edit and publish the work. But Skinner?s untimely death in 1925 thwarted their plans, and the manuscript languished for seventy-five years in a California library. Laura L. Anderson, who teaches anthropology at the University of Oklahoma, has edited this unusual document, which offers a fresh look at what it means to be Dakota.
