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. “TiweNAsaakari¿I 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