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One Hundred Years of Lakota Linguistics (1887-1987) DOCUMENT RESUME ED 347 813 FL 020 323 AUTHOR de Reuse, Willem J. TITLE One Hundred Years of Lakota Linguistics (1887-1987). SPONS AGENCY National Endowment for the Humanities (NFAH), Washington, D.C.; National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 07 NOTE 31p.; In: Kansas Working Papers inLinguistics, Volume 12; see FL 020 321. PUB TY1-E Reference Materials - Bibliographies (131) EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *American Indian Languages; AnnotatedBibliographies; *Anthropological Linguistics; Language Research; Linguistic Theory; Uncommonly TaughtLanguages IDENTIFIERS *Lakota (Language); Sioux (Tribe) ABSTRACT This document is an attempt ata comprehensive bibliography of all published and unpublishedmaterials relevant to the Lakota (Teton Dakota or Teton Sioux)langur.ge with comments for most items. The period covered isfrom 1887 to 1987, the date of the publication of James Pilling's "Bibliographyof the Siouan Languages" (1887). Items in Pilling'slistings are excluded from thisone unless they have been reprinted or reviewedafter 1887. Items included here are more than 200 books, pamphlets, articles,papers, theses, dissertations, published or unpublished,completed or in preparation, that bear fundamentally or marginallyon the study of all linguistic aspects of the Lakota language. Thisbibliography differs from Pilling's in that it deals only with theLakota dialect and not with any of the other languages or dialects ofthe Dakotan or Sioux subdivision of Mississippi Valley Siouan (i.e,the Dakota and Nakota dialects and the Assiniboine and Stoneylanguages), nor with other branches of the Siouan family. Generalreference works and bibliographies on the Dakota or Siouxare also not included. Most items are followed by informal notesbetween square brackets. (LB) *********************************************************************t* Reproductions supplied by EDRSare the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** ONE HUNDRED YEARSOF LAKOTA LiNGUISTICS "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS (1887-1087) BY MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED U.S. DEPARTMENT Office of Educational OF EDUCATION Research and Impuwement _ EOUCATIONAL RESOURCESINFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) if.oirricaocurnanthas been reproduced received from the person as originating it or organization Mirror changes have reproduction quality'Jaen made In improve TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Willem J. de Peuse INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." Points of view oropinions stated in this docu merit du not necessarily represent official OECD position or policy Abstract:Thisis anattemptatacomprehensive bibliography of publishedand unpublished books,articles, and materials relevantto the Lakota (Teton Dakotaor Teton Sioux) language, withcomments for most items. The periodcoveredisfrom1887,thedateofPilling's Bibliography of the SiouanLanguages, to date (1387). This bibliography isan attempt at a complete list ofeverything written on the Lakotalanguage since the publicationof Pilling, James C. 1887.Bibliography of the SiouanLangums. BAE-B.5. Washington: Govt.Printing Office. a century ago. The items in that bibliographyare thus excluded from this list, unless they have beenreprinted or reviewed after1887.Items included are books, pamphlets, articles,papers, theses, dissertations, publishedor unpublished, completedorinpreparation, bearing fundamentallyor marginally on the study ofall linguistic aspects ofthe Lakota, (also called Teton Siouxor Teton Dakota) language. It will be noted that th;sbibliography differs inscope from Pilling (1887) since it deals onlywith the Lakota dialect, andnot with any of the other languagesordialects of the Dakotanor Sioux subdivision of Mississippi Valley Siouan (i.e.the Dakota and Nakotadialects, and the Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics.Vol.12.,1987. pp. 13-42 4(IP."tiu.a 14 Assiniboine and Stoney languages),nor with other branches of theSiouan family.General referenceworks and bibliographieson the Dakota or Sioux are not included. Most items are followed bysome informal notes betweensquare brackets.n.s. means that the compiler hasnot seen this item. Abbreviations usedare: BAE-B Bureau of AmericanEthnology Bureau BR Bureau of Indian Affairs The following is a chart of the correspondencesbetween diacritics in the original titles and theircomputer equivalents; Vstands forany vowel, C forany Consonant, and X forany letter. 15 I wish to thank all the people who havelent materials tome, including RichardCarter, Ken Miner, PatriciaShaw, and in particular David Rood and AllanTaylor for lettingme browse in their Lakota library at the University of Colorado, and JohnKoontz for sendingme a list of items. This work was partially supported bythe NationalScience Foundation under grantno. BNS-8406236 and bytheNational Endowment for theHumanities under grantno. RD-20477-84. Anon. n.d. [Mimeo Lakotalessons, with vocabularyand introduction signed C.A. H. (= CordeliaAttack Him?).1 [30 pp.; inpossession of Dept. ofLinguistics, University of Colorado,Boulder.) Anon. n.d. [Mimeo primerof 17 short texts, withEnglish questions, and vocabulary,on loose pages of different colors.][56pp.; in possession of Dept. ofLinguistics, University of Colorado,Boulder.) Anon. n.d. [Mimeopamphlet with twotexts: To Ride Like the Wind / KahwokyaOakanyanke and TryThese! / Lena Iyutla Yo.) [4pp.; illustrated; seen GeraldineFlorence Iron Whiteman's copy (daughter of Cleveland IronWhiteman + and Theresa MaeLeDeaux). Thiscopy was given to her by her aunt, presumably in the lateseventies, in Pine Ridge,S.D.) Anon. 1072. Indian BilingualPrograms. The Title V11 Bilingual EducationProject at Loneman DaySchool in Oglala, S.D. Languagein American IndianEducation. (A Newsletter ofthe Office of EducationPrograms, B1A.) Spring.23-8. Anon. 1.9"2. LocalResource Material. lyapiNupa, a bilitigual newsletter (Lakota andEnglish) of the 16 Loneman School BilingualEducation Program. CarlaFiedler, Director. Loneman School;Oglala, S.D. 57764. Published every 2 weeks. Language inAmerican Indian Education. (A Newsletter of theOffice of EducationPrograms, MA.) Winter.66-7. Paragraphs taken from theAugust 18 1071 issue of "Iyapi Nupa":"What is Bilingual?" /"Bilingual kin e taku he?".) Allen, Harold B. ed.1973. Linguistic Atlas ofthe Upper Midwest. Vol. 1.University of MinnesotaPress. [On p. 130: 5 Teton words usedin English bya non-Indian Valentine, Nebraska, informant,1 Dakota word used inEnglish by a Lake Andes, S.D., informant.] Attack Him, Cordelia.1081. Lakota LanguageI.Kyle, S.D.: Lakota Studies Dept.,Oglala Sioux CommunityCollege. [Mimio; illustrated; includes teacher'smanual; in a Buechel-like orthography.) Bates, Frances J.1072. Lakota langmmelessons. University of NorthDakota Master's Thesis.[n.s.1 Blacksmith, Max, MaryChief Eagle, WaltHull, John Kingman, and John Swallow. 11072)Lec<el Owapi. Officeof Education, Title VII B;lingualEducation Project, Loneman Day School,Oglala, S.D. 57764. [Illustrated elementary primer forlearning the letters;the Hull alphabet is used; examplesentences are bilingual; unpaginated.) Blish, Helen H.1067. A pictographicHistory of the Oglala Sioux. Drawingsby Amos Bad HeartBull. Lincoln: University of NebraskaPress. (Captionedin Lakota, using the old "q and r" spelling) Boas, Franz. 1925.Teton Sioux Music. Journalof American Folklore.38.[n.s.) Boas, Franz. 1934.Geograni!ical Names ofthe Kwakiutl Indians. (ColumbiaUniversity Contributionsto Anthropology.20.) New York:Columbia University Press. (On pp. 20-1,notes on Lakota geographicalnames, from 17 E. C. Deloria;a short extract in modified form(wPhout the Lakota forms)occurs in Language in Culture and Society, 1964, ed. Ly DellHymes, 171-9. New York:Harper and Row.) Boas, Franz. 1937. Sometraits of the Dakotalanguage. Language.13.137-41. (Reprintedin: Ra_z Language%and Culture, 1940, New York:Macmillan, pp. 226-31. First paperback edition:1966, New York: TheFree Press.) Boas, Franz, and EllaC. Deloria. 1033.Notes on the Dakota, Teton dialect. InternationalJournal of American leinguistics.7.97-121. (Supersededby I integrated into Boas and Deloria (1041)4 Boas, Franz, and EllaC. Deloria. 1041.Dakota Grammar. (National Academyof Science Memoirs.23:2.)Washington: U.S. Govt. PrintingOffice. (Reprinted1079, Vermillion, S.D.: The Dakota Press.)(Still the best andmost thorough grammatical descriptionof a Siouan language;mostlyon Lakota, but also occasionalDakota (Santee), Yankton,and Assiniboine notes; at end: 6 texts withinterlinear translations,including: 3 Lakota texts (also with grammaticalnotes), 2 Santeetexts (1 with notesgiving Teton equivalents),and 1 Assiniboine text.] Boas, Franz, and JohnR. Swanton.1011. Siouan, Dakota (Teton and Santee dialects)with remarkson the Ponca and Winnebago. Handbook of AmericanIndian Languages,part 1, ed. by Franz Boas, 875-965. BAE-B.40.Washington: U.S. Govt.Printing Office. (Discusses bothTeton (Swanton's datafrom the Bushotter texts) andSantee (from Riggs)] Bryde, John F. 1075. (Sioux text: 'Howthe Crow Becamel3lack', on p. 2641 The Languages ofthe Work!, by KennethKatzner, New York: Funckand Wagnalls. (Buechelorthography.) Buechel, Eugene, S.J.1008. (Manuscript storiesand narrations.)[n.s.; Ipresume this is the material that became publishedas Buechel (1078).] Buechel, Eugene, S.J.1924. \Vowapi wakanwicowovake 18 yuptecelapi kin. BibleHistory in the languageof the Teton Sioux Indians.New York: I3enzigerBrothers. [From the Old andNew Testaments; stillavailable in the original edition in1074, also in 1084 ?) Buechel, Eugene,
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