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By James H. Howard

The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the USA who sought safe haven in Canada throughout the 1860s and 1870s. dwelling this day on 8 reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they're the least studied of the entire Sioux teams. This booklet, initially released in 1984, is helping fill that hole within the literature and is still proper even within the twenty-first century.

Based on Howard’s fieldwork within the Seventies and supplemented by way of written resources, The Canadian Sioux, Second Edition descriptively reconstructs their conventional tradition, many facets of that are nonetheless practiced or remembered by means of Canadian Sioux even though lengthy forgotten by way of their relations within the usa. wealthy intimately, it offers an abundance of data on subject matters comparable to tribal divisions, documented heritage and conventional background, struggle, economic climate, social existence, philosophy and faith, and ceremonialism. approximately part the ebook is dedicated to Canadian Sioux faith and describes such ceremonies because the imaginative and prescient Quest, the drugs ceremonial dinner, the drugs Dance, the sunlight Dance, warrior society dances, and the Ghost Dance.

This moment variation comprises formerly unpublished pictures, lots of them photographed via Howard, and a few of his unique drawings.

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