ETHNOASTRONOMY OF THE LAKOTA
Dr. Mark Hollabaugh
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Normandale Community College
Bloomington, Minnesota 55431



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Marsha C. Bol, Stars Above, Earth Below:  American Indians and Nature, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Roberts Rinehart Publishers, Niwot, Colorado, 1998, ISBN 1-57098-198-1.

Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1970, ISBN 0-8050-1730-5.

Dee Brown, The Fetterman Massacre, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1962, ISBN 0-8032-5730-9.

Joseph Epes Brown, ed., The Sacred Pipe:  Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1989.  ISBN 0-8061-2124-6.  (Includes audio tape)

Bucko, Raymond A.  The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 1998.  ISBN 0-8032-6165-9.

Eugene Buechel, S.J., Lakota-English Dictionary, ed., by Paul Manhart, S.J., Red Cloud Indian School, Holy Rosary Mission, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 1983.

Von Del Chamberlain, “North American Plains Indian Calendars,”  Archaeoastronomy:  Supplement to Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 15, No. 6, 1984, pp. S1-S54.

Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks, eds., Sioux Indian Religion, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1987.  ISBN 0-8061-2166-1.

Don Doll, S.J., Vision Quest:  Men, Women, and Sacred Sites of the Sioux Nation, Crown Publishers, New York, 1994, ISBN 0-517-59904-X.

Margot Edmonds and Ella E. Clark, eds., Voices of the Winds:  Native American Legends, Facts on File Books, New York, 1989.  ISBN 0-8160-2067-1.

Richard Erdoes & Alfonso Ortiz, eds., American Indian Myths and Legends, New York:  Pantheon Books, 1984.  ISBN 0-394-74018-1.  (Includes audio tape)

Sven G. Froiland, Natural History of the Black Hills and Badlands, Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1990, ISBN 0-931170-47-8.

Elizabeth S. Grobsmith, Lakota of the Rosebud, Harcourt Brace, 1981, ISBN 0-03-057438-2.

Royal B. Hassrick, The Sioux, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1964, ISBN 0-8061-2140-8.

Arlene Hirschfelder and Paulette Molin, The Encyclopedia of Native American Religions, Facts on File, New York, 1992, ISBN 0-8160-2017-5.

George E. Hyde, A Sioux Chronicle, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1993, ISBN 0-8061-2483-0.

George E. Hyde, Red Cloud’s Folk, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1975, ISBN 0-8061-1520-3.

George E. Hyde, Spotted Tail’s Folk, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1961, ISBN 0-8061-1380-4.

Thomas E. Mails, Sundancing at Rosebud and Pine Ridge, Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1978, ISBN 0-931170-01-X.

Evan M. Maurer, Visions of the People:  A Pictorial History of Plains Indian Life, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1992.  ISBN 0-295-97229-7.

John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, Washington Square Press, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1959.  (Paperback)  ISBN 0-671-45221-5.

John G. Neihardt, The Sixth Grandfather, ed. by Raymond J. DeMaille, University of Nebraska Press, 1984.  ISBN 0-8032-6564-6.

William K. Powers, Lakota Cosmos:  Religion and the Reinvention of Culture, Lakota Books, 1998.

William K. Powers, Oglala Religion, University of Nebraska Press, 1977, ISBN 0-8032-8706-2.

William K. Powers, Sacred Language:  The Nature of Supernatural Discourse in Lakota, University of Nebraska Press, 1986, ISBN 0-8061-2458-X.

William K. Powers, Yuwipi:  Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual, University of Nebraska Press, 1982, ISBN 0-8032-8710-0.

Sandoz, Mari.  Crazy Horse:  The Strange Man of the Oglalas.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

Robert M. Utley, The Indian Frontier of the American West 1846-1890, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1984, ISBN 0-8263-0716-7.

James R.  Walker, Lakota Belief and Ritual, University of Nebraska Press, 1991, ed.  by Raymond J.  DeMaille and Elaine A.  Jahner, ISBN 0-8032-9731-9.

James R. Walker, Lakota Myth, University of Nebraska Press, 1983, ed. by Elaine A. Jahner, ISBN 0-8032-9706-8.

James R. Walker, Lakota Society, ed. by Raymond J. DeMaille, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1982, ISBN 0-8032-9737-8.

Ray A. Williamson and Claire R. Farrer, eds., Earth & Sky:  Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1992, ISBN 0-8263-1553-4.