A Dictionary of the Teton Dakota Sioux Language

Language ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 999 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Hubert Matthews ◽  
Eugene Buechel ◽  
Paul Manhart
Keyword(s):  
Dakota Sioux

scholarly journals Experiencing Literacy in and Out of School: Case Studies of Two American Indian Youths

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Noll
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Predominately White ◽  
Multiple Cultures ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Dakota Sioux ◽  
Out Of School

This case-study research focused on the role of multiple literacies in the lives of Lakota and Dakota (Sioux) young adolescents who lived and attended school in a predominately White, rural community in the upper Midwest. In addition to examining the participants' uses of reading and writing, this study explored the ways in which the participants constructed meaning through music, dance, and art. Also studied was the influence of multiple cultures - American Indian culture, school culture, and mainstream popular culture - on the adolescents' transactions with literacy. Data were collected both in and out of school over a period of 7 months. Primary collection techniques included participant observation and fieldnotes; interviews with the participants and their parents, peers, teachers, and administrators; and examination of artifacts. The findings of this study indicate that literacy supported important personal and social needs in the lives of the adolescents. Specifically, through literacy, they explored and expressed their sense of identity and examined critical issues related to prejudice, racism, and discrimination. Numerous questions remain as to the different ways persons experience literacy and illiteracy. How often is literacy defined in relation to illiteracy? How often does it actually signify academic literacy? How do diverse individuals become literate in an inequitable world? - Maxine Greene (1991, p. 129)

The Seven Pipes of the Dakota Sioux

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (48) ◽  
pp. 81-82
Author(s):  
Robert Holy Dance
Keyword(s):  
Dakota Sioux

“In my mind I Saw my mother”: Virginia Woolf, Zitkala-Ša, and Autobiography

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Czarnecki
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Native American Languages ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Maternal Loss ◽  
Indian Wars ◽  
Middle Class Family ◽  
Dakota Sioux

This essay considers how the self becomes a subject in Virginia Woolf’s memoir, “A Sketch of the Past,” written in 1939, and Dakota Sioux writer Zitkala-Ša’s autobiographical essays, published in the Atlantic Monthly over several months in early 1900. I analyze how both women conceive of their nationality, social position, and politics amid competing pressures vying for their minds and bodies; how mothers and maternal loss shape their autobiographies; how physical and psychological place and displacement influence their lives and writing; and how matters of audience affect their literary self-portraits. Significant differences of course exist between Woolf, raised in an upper-middle-class family in late-Victorian England, and Zitkala-Ša, born on a Sioux reservation at the height of America’s “Indian wars” and initiatives to eradicate Native American languages, cultures, and spiritualities. Nevertheless, their autobiographical reflections on their childhood and young adulthood express comparable feminist impulses and narrative strategies.

Lincoln’s Decisionism and the Politics of Elimination

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 524-551
Author(s):  
Steven Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
American History ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Dakota Sioux ◽  
American Memory

Abraham Lincoln’s hallowed place in American memory is secure: He saved the Union, put an end to slavery, and was assassinated for these very successes. At the same time, Lincoln’s many undeniable achievements came at terrible—and lasting—democratic cost. Informed by the work of Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben, this essay aspires to illuminate that cost by analyzing two cases where Lincoln exercised a sovereign decisionism—one involving the exile of Ohio politician Clement Vallandigham for publicly opposing the Civil War and the draft, a second involving the mass execution of Dakota Sioux Indians for daring to rise up and enact their own sovereign prerogatives during the war. This decisionism reveals Lincoln’s problematic resort to anti-political practices to deal with adversaries. Given the damage Lincoln did to American democracy, the essay also investigates what he might have done to make amends for it. Finally, it explores how Lincoln’s place in American history might be remembered more agonistically, architecturally speaking, on the Mall in Washington, D.C.

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