Lakota History, Lakota 

"The Lakȟóta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once lumped together with others and called the Sioux. This book tells the full story of Lakȟóta culture and society, from their origins to the twenty-first century, drawing on Lakȟóta voices and perspectives.

In Lakȟóta culture, "listening" is a cardinal virtue, connoting respect, and here authors Rani-Henrik Andersson and David C. Posthumus listen to the Lakȟóta, both past and present. The history of Lakȟóta culture unfolds in this narrative as the people lived it.

Fittingly, Lakȟóta: An Indigenous History opens with an origin story, that of White Buffalo Calf Woman (Ptesanwin) and her gift of the sacred pipe to the Lakȟóta people. Drawing on winter counts, oral traditions and histories, and Lakȟóta letters and speeches, the narrative proceeds through such periods and events as early Lakȟóta-European trading, the creation of the Great Sioux Reservation, Christian missionization, the Plains Indian Wars, the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee (1890), the Indian New Deal, and self-determination, as well as recent challenges like the #NoDAPL movement and management of Covid-19 on reservations. This book centers Lakȟóta experience, as when it shifts the focus of the Battle of Little Bighorn from Custer to fifteen-year-old Black Elk, or puts American Horse at the heart of the negotiations with the Crook Commission, or explains the Lakȟóta agenda in negotiating the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1851.

The picture that emerges-of continuity and change in Lakȟóta culture from its distant beginnings to issues in our day-is as sweeping and intimate, and as deeply complex, as the lived history it encompasses. "--Book jacket. 

xx, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 

Contents:
Hináȟapi (emergence)
The Buffalo People: Pté oyáte
The sacred: Wakȟáƞ kiƞ
Kinship and social organization: Wótakuye
Trading and fighting with the Wašíču
Many white man's roads: Wašíču tȟačháƞku ótapi
Powder River: Čhaȟlí wakpá
The Black Hills are not for sale: Ȟesápa
Defending Lakȟóta ways: Lakȟól wičhóȟ'aƞ
The ghost dance: Wanáği wačhípi kiƞ
The reservation: Owákpamni oyáƞke
Resilience and survival: Wówakiš'ake
Lakȟól wóčhekiye: Maintaining and reclaiming Lakȟóta culture and ways: Lakȟól wičhóȟ'aƞ in the twenty first century
Afterword.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-402) and index.