Dakota texts from the Boas Collection, American Philosophical Society Library
A.P.S. Number 497.3 B63c Contents: Dakota Texts from the Sword Manuscript [1876-1909; 1938]. Edited and translated by E. Deloria. 382 L. X 8a.18 Old Dakota legends [no date, 1937?] Texts with literal and free translations and with ethnographic and linguistic notes. 358 L. X 8a.21. Dakota autobiographies [ca. 1937]. 382 L. X 8a.4. Dakota commentary on Walker's texts [1937]. 47, 40 L. X 8a.5.
MS 3738 Dakota Myth of how the Spider married his mother-in-law
Log (Dakota)
Lakota text with interlinear and free English translations. Myth related by Log, a Two Kettle Dakota.
MS 1050 The Star-born: A Dakota Myth
Poetic version of "The Fallen Star," a myth written in Dakota by Michel Renville, printed in Stephen R. Riggs, "Dakota Grammar, Texts, and Ethnography," edited by James Owen Dorsey, CNAE IX, Washington, D.C., 1893. Pages 83-94.
MS 945 The Stone Boy and the Spider
A myth, in Lakota, with interlinear and free English translations.
MS 4304 Lakota vocabularies, legend of Thunder, and description of Teton lodges
MS 1910-h An old story about an Indian and a Spider or a White Man
Mooney, James, 1861-1921
Myth concerns the Dakota Trickster Iktomi's experiences with fishing.
MS 7088 Field Notes Summer of 1930...1931. White Clay District, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
Includes brief introductory statement of author's theory concerning the acculturation problems of Indians; chronologically arranged ethnographic study of Dakota Indian reservation life in the White Clay District of Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; and current opinions as well as reminiscences about past Dakota history, customs, religion, kinship and mythology by …
MS 2353 Dakota Myths
Hoffman, Sanie
Contains "The rabbit and the well," and "The rabbit and the buffalo-boy," in Dakota, with free English translations.
MS 4685 Material on the Dakotas
Herman, Vera
Garnett, William, 1855-1928
McGillycuddy, Valentine, 1849-1939
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1 Photograph
Includes biographical data on Yellow Horse, Northern Oglala, and the murder of John Richard, Jr., Autograph document signed, 7 pages. "A Prayer of the Lakota" (poem), Typescript document 1 page. "Tepee Creek Legend, Carbon typescript, 1 page. Ten letters from Valentine T. McGillycuddy to William Garnett, one from Garnett to McGillycuddy, Carbon typescript …
MS 1754 Miscellaneous writings on the Dakotas
Includes "Games played by Indian children," Autograph document signed 3 pages with 1 sketch; "How Sioux Indians receive their names," Autograph document signed 12 pages; "Thunder's Slaughter," a myth, Autograph document signed 5 pages; "One good Indian and one bad one," Autograph document signed (Dated 1903) 11 pages; "Maternity and midwifery among the Sioux," Autograph document …
