Great Plains Ethnohistory

Rani-Henrik Andersson is an associate professor of North American studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the author of LakȟÓta: An Indigenous History and The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 (Nebraska, 2008), among other works. Logan Sutton is a language material developer, researcher, and teacher for the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation Culture and Language Department on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota. Thierry VeyriÉ is the director of the Language Program at the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe and editor, with Raymond DeMallie, of Ella Cara Deloria’s The Dakota Way of Life (Nebraska, 2022).

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Ethnohistory in the Twenty-First CenturyRani-Henrik Andersson, Logan Sutton, and Thierry VeyriÉ1. A Foot in the Field, a Foot in the Archive, and a Keen Editorial Eye: The Making of an EthnohistorianJoanna C. Scherer and Thierry VeyriÉPart 1. Changing Identities in the Indigenous Societies of the Great Plains2. From Deslauriers to Deloria: French Identity in a Sioux Indian FamilyRaymond J. DeMallie3. Lakota Modernities and the Ends of History: Little Big Man, Crow Dog, and Red Tomahawk in ContextSebastian F. Braun4. “Although He Had the Ways of a Woman, He Was a Great Warrior”: KÚsaat in Nineteenth-Century Pawnee and Arikara SocietyMark van de Logt5. Hungry Narratives Turned on Their Head (or Danced on Their Toes?): Toward Decolonial Listening in Ethnohistorical PracticeSarah Quick6. Paradigms and Poetry: John G. Neihardt’s Cycle of the WestFrancis FlavinPart 2. Symbols and Ceremonialism7. From the Litter to the Horse: The Native American Ritual of “Lifting”Gilles Havard8. Remapping Northern Arapaho Space and Place in Plains EthnohistoryJeffrey D. Anderson9. “TiweNAsaakaričI nikuwetiresWAtwaÁhAt aniinuuNUxtaahiwaÁRA”: An Overview of Arikara SpiritualityBrad KuuNUx TeeRIt Kroupa10. “Under the Tree That Never Bloomed I Sat and Cried Because It Faded Away”: An Ethnohistory of Black Elk’s VisionsRani-Henrik AnderssonPart 3. Kinship and Language11. Comanche Society on the Reservation, 1875–1926, a Patrilineal Hypothesis: The Case of the Ketahto YamparikaThomas W. Kavanagh12. Linguistic Evidence of Contact between Northern Caddoan and Siouan Languages: Arikara-Pawnee Verbal ClassifiersLogan Sutton13. Wooden Boatmen, Spirits, and Bushy Eyebrows: American Indian Names for the French in North AmericaDouglas R. ParksAfterwordPhilip J. DeloriaContributorsIndex

“The authors share interdisciplinary perspectives and methods that were intensely cultivated and applied by the important scholars whose legacies underlie their contributions: Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks. The contributors bring forward diverse studies-some of broad interest, some highly specialized-that build on DeMallie’s and Parks’s insights and priorities, particularly their combining of attention to archival/historical sources and fieldwork with living communities and in-depth studies of Indigenous languages.”-Jennifer S. H. Brown, editor of Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River: A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in Conversation