Being
Dakota: Tales and Traditions of the Sisseton and Wahpeton
by Amos
E. Oneroad, Laura
L. Anderson, Alanson
B. Skinner
Book Description: A unique collection detailing the customs, traditions,
and folklore of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota at the turn of the twentieth
century.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, a few members of the Sisseton-Wahpeton
Dakota community in northeastern South Dakota worked quietly to preserve
the customs and stories of their ancestors in the face of federal government
suppression and the opposition of organized religion.
Amos E. Oneroad, a son of one of those families, was educated in traditional
Dakota ways and then sent East, where he obtained a college education and
eventually became a Presbyterian minister. For most of his life, he moved
in two worlds. By fortunate coincidence he met Alanson B. Skinner, a student
of anthropology and kindred soul, in New York City. The two men formed
a bond both personal and professional, collaborating on anthropological
studies in various parts of the United States. The project closest to Oneroad's
heart was the collection and preservation of the stories and traditions
of the Sisseton and Wahpeton. Oneroad wrote down the stories and gave them
to Skinner. The men intended to polish the resulting manuscript and publish
it, but Skinner's untimely death in 1925 thwarted their plans.
Oneroad and Skinner collected descriptions of everyday life, including
material culture, tribal organization, and ceremonies that marked the individual's
passage from birth to death. Several of the folk tales relate the exploits
of Iktomi, the trickster, in rare, early, unexpurgated versions. Others
tell of adventures of such figures as the Child of Love, Star Born, and
the Mysterious Turtle.
Laura L. Anderson, who teaches anthropology at the University of Oklahoma,
found the neglected manuscript among Skinner's papers in a California library
and has edited it for publication. BEING DAKOTA succeeds in fulfilling
its authors' original intent by conveying these long-ago stories and traditions
to the children and grandchildren, and being true to Amos Oneroad's voice.
Hardcover from Minnesota Historical Society
Book Published: June, 2003 |
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