Guy Gibbon

The Sioux (eBook, PDF)

The Dakota and Lakota Nations

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book covers the entire historical range of the Sioux, from their emergence as an identifiable group in late prehistory to the year 2000. The author has studied the material remains of the Sioux for many years. His expertise combined with his informative and engaging writing style and numerous photographs create a compelling and indispensable book. * A leading expert discusses and analyzes the Sioux people with rigorous scholarship and remarkably clear writing. * Raises questions about Sioux history while synthesizing the historical and anthropological research over a wide scope of issues and periods. * Provides historical sketches, topical debates, and imaginary reconstructions to engage the reader in a deeper thinking about the Sioux. * Includes dozens of photographs, comprehensive endnotes and further reading lists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470754955
• Artikelnr.: 38205984

Autorenporträt

Guy Gibbon is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He has worked as an anthropologist on Sioux reservations and pioneered excavations of early Sioux settlements in Minnesota's northern forests. He is the author of Explanation in Archaeology (1989) and the editor of Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures.
Preface and Acknowledgments.
1. Reading the Sioux.
2. The Prehistory of the Sioux, 9500 BC-AD 1650.
3. The French and English Fur Trade, 1650-1803.
4. The Early American Period, 1803-1850.
5. Fighting for Survival, 1850-1889.
6. Assimilation and Allotment, 1889-1934.
7. Restoration and Reorganization, 1934-1975.
8. The Sioux Today: Self-Determination, 1975-2000.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Rezensionen

'This book is ideal fare for the reader who has always wanteda source that illuminates the rich history and diversity of Siouxculture - one that includes insightful lessons incross-cultural understanding.' W. Raymond Wood, Universityof Missouri

'Guy Gibbon's The Sioux: The Dakota and LakotaNations is the first attempt to write about the Sioux fromprehistory to the present in a single volume. This book is avaluable starting point for readers interested in Sioux history andculture.' Raymond J. DeMallie, IndianaUniversity

"Readable and sophisticated, this book covers both the famouswestern Sioux of the plains (Lakota) and the less well known forestdwelling eastern Dakota, from the earliest humans in theirMinnesota homeland (9500 BCE) to 2000 CE. Suitable as a text, thebook engages general readers too." Choice