The Canadian Sioux

Index

185 I ND E X Page numbers in italic indicate illustrations. acculturation, 175 Adoption Feast, 119–20 afterworld, 113–14, 166 agriculture. See farming akíchita, 5, 122 alcoholism, absence of, 173 “All Nations Revival,” 175–76 American Revolution, 32 animal dreamers, 127–28 animal husbandry, 58–60 animals: bears, 51, 102–3; bison, 4, 5, 53–55, 163; horses, 58–59, 76, 103, 132–33; power conferred by, 102–3; spiritual prototypes of, 95, 116, 127–28; treatment of, 95–96. See also dogs Arapahoes, 48 Arikaras, 49 arts and crafts, 65–71; craft cooperatives and, 67; deliberate imperfections in, 67. See also Double Woman Ashley, Edward, 16 Assiniboines, 48, 152 baby hammock, 73 baseball, 83 baskets and basketry, 65 Basswood Legging Strips sub-band, 16–17 Battle of Little Big Horn (1876), xxiii, 28, 44 battle reenactment, 143, 153, 162–63 beadwork, 8, 66–68, 90 beans, 60 Bear, George, 18, 30, 68, 72, 83; on dances, 89, 120; on religion, 97, 98, 117, 118, 174; stories, 32, 34–35 Bear, Martin, 108, 110 bears, 51, 102–3 Beveridge, Daniel M., xvii bifurcate merging kinship system, 77, 80–81 Big Grass Dance, 135, 139. See also Grass Dance Birch, John, 167 birds, 105 Birdtail Sioux Reserve, 18, 26, 31, 62, 174 bison, 4, 5, 53–55; and Buffalo Bull Dance, 163 Black, James, 126 Blackfoot, 48 Blackfoot Dance, 87, 89, 91 black road, 97 Blacksmith, Jim, 125 Black Stone Heart dance society, 133 Blood People, 48 “blue medicine,” 109–10 bow and arrow, 9, 65 186 THE CANADIAN SIOUX bowls, feast, 118, 119 Brave Dance society, 134 breadroot. See thípsiŋna brideservice, 11 British allies, Sioux as, 2, 22, 31, 32 Brown Eagle, 29 buckskin, 68 Buechel, Eugene, xviii Buffalo, Sam, 14, 17, 63, 69, 73, 169, 176; on dances, 124, 125, 164, 166– 68; on games, 83, 84; on hunting, 55, 58; on religion, 96, 97, 101, 104, 117–18, 119–20; stories, 126–27 buffalo berry, 110 Buffalo Bull Dance, 150, 163. See also Grass Dance “buffalo caller,” 54–55 burial and mourning customs, 11, 112– 13, 153. See also Ghost Dance Canada: government of, xxiii, xxiv, 25–26, 28, 171; Sioux flight to, xxiii, 2, 21–23, 31, 34, 35; Sioux refugees and, 21, 22–23, 24, 27, 31, 171; treaties with, 25–26. See also reserves Canadian Ethnology Service, ix, xiii Canadian Museum of History, xvii, xviii cattle raising, 60, 61 ceremonies, 10, 115–70; kinship assistance in holding, 77; in Plains tradition, 129–70; in Woodlands tradition, 115–28. See also specific ceremonies and dances Chaŋóthidaŋ. See Little Tree Dweller Chékiya Wóhaŋpi. See Prayer Feast chief, role of, 5 childbirth, 72 children, 72–74; ordinal terms for, 82 chokecherry, 110 Chouart, Médard. See des Groseilliers, Médard Chouart Christian churches, 28, 174–76; and kinship ties, 77; and suppression of traditional practices, 42, 77, 108, 175 Christian schools, 27, 174–75 clans, absence of, 81 clowns. See Heyókha cult color symbolism, 96–97, 152 commercial fishing, 58 communal land, 173 coneflower, 110 contraception, 108 corn, 4, 32, 60 Corrigan, Sam, 120, 147 council fires, seven, 3 counting coup, 46 courting flute, 74–75 courtship, 74–76; and Turnabout Dance, 92–93 Coyote Dance, 134 cradle, 72, 73 craft cooperatives, 67 crafts. See arts and crafts creation, 94 Crees, 48; clown cult of, 165 cross, Greek, 96–97 cross-cousin marriage, 81 crow belts, 138–39, 142–43, 144, 148, 149, 152; songs for, 150–51 culture. See Sioux culture Custer, George A., 2 Dakota, x; meaning of, 3. See also Sioux language Dakota-Iroquois kinship system, 77. See also bifurcate merging kinship system Dallas, Alexander G., 22–23 dances, 87–93; battle reenactments in, 143, 153, 162–63; and dance hall, 62–63; and dancing styles, 161–62; as fundraisers, 87, 139, 146, 148, Index 187 149–50, 160, 163; as pledge for cure, 131, 132, 133; white influence in, 89, 91. See also specific dances dancing the tail, 153 the dead: burial of, 11; memorial feasts for, 112–13, 122; painted with wasé, 168; release from mourning for, 153 decorations: beadwork, 8, 66–68; floral designs, 8, 66–67; geometric designs, 62, 66; painted, 68; quillwork , 67; symbolic, 68 Deer Holy Men, 127–28 deer hunting, 55, 56 Deloria, Ella, 14 Dew Lickers sub-band, 17 diet. See food displacement of tribes, ix...