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 Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ethnohistory in the Twenty-First Century
Rani-Henrik Andersson, Logan Sutton, and Thierry Veyrié
1. A Foot in the Field, a Foot in the Archive, and a Keen Editorial Eye: The Making of an Ethnohistorian
Joanna C. Scherer and Thierry Veyrié
Part 1. Changing Identities in the Indigenous Societies of the Great Plains
2. From Deslauriers to Deloria: French Identity in a Sioux Indian Family
Raymond J. DeMallie
3. Lakota Modernities and the Ends of History: Little Big Man, Crow Dog, and Red Tomahawk in Context
Sebastian F. Braun
4. “Although He Had the Ways of a Woman, He Was a Great Warrior”: Kúsaat in Nineteenth-Century Pawnee and Arikara Society
Mark van de Logt
5. Hungry Narratives Turned on Their Head (or Danced on Their Toes?): Toward Decolonial Listening in Ethnohistorical Practice
Sarah Quick
6. Paradigms and Poetry: John G. Neihardt’s Cycle of the West
Francis Flavin
Part 2. Symbols and Ceremonialism
7. From the Litter to the Horse: The Native American Ritual of “Lifting”
Gilles Havard
8. Remapping Northern Arapaho Space and Place in Plains Ethnohistory
Jeffrey D. Anderson
9. “TiweNAsaakaričI nikuwetiresWAtwaáhAt aniinuuNUxtaahiwaáRA”: An Overview of Arikara Spirituality
Brad KuuNUx TeeRIt Kroupa
10. “Under the Tree That Never Bloomed I Sat and Cried Because It Faded Away”: An Ethnohistory of Black Elk’s Visions
Rani-Henrik Andersson
Part 3. Kinship and Language
11. Comanche Society on the Reservation, 1875–1926, a Patrilineal Hypothesis: The Case of the Ketahto Yamparika
Thomas W. Kavanagh
12. Linguistic Evidence of Contact between Northern Caddoan and Siouan Languages: Arikara-Pawnee Verbal Classifiers
Logan Sutton
13. Wooden Boatmen, Spirits, and Bushy Eyebrows: American Indian Names for the French in North America
Douglas R. Parks
Afterword
Philip J. Deloria
Contributors
Index