Lakota/Dakota Language ResourcesNative American Studies Resources
Below are resources that are available for research in American Indian history and culture. Some resources may only be available at Sitting Bull College or with a password. Contact a librarian at 701-854-8008 or send an email to markh@sbci.edu if you need assistance.
Electronic Books
Below is a listing of ebooks that are available online. Titles without links can be found at the NetLibrary link below.
American Indian Biographies by Magill's Choice
Dakota Place Names: Geographical Names on 18th and 19th Century Maps
http://www.sdgs.usd.edu/pubs/PAPERS_PUBLICATIONS/Dakota%20Place%20Names.pdf
Damned Indians: The Pick Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux 1944-1980
Documents of United States Indian Policy
Ebsco E-books
http://www.odin.nodak.edu/authgate/?db=NET
Encyclopedia of North American Indians by Albert Hoxie
Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877
Lakota Dakota Electronic Texts Available Online
http://puffin.creighton.edu/lakota/
A comprehensive list of online links featuring full text versions of Lakota materials available online.
Lakota names and traditional uses of native plants by Sicangu (Brule) people in the Rosebud area, South Dakota
Land of the Spotted Eagle by Luther Standing Bear
Moon of the Popping Trees by Rex Alan Smith
My Indian Boyhood by Luther Standing Bear
My People the Sioux by Luther Standing Bear
Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie McLaughlin
Native American Issues: A Reference Handbook
Reading and Writing the Lakota Language: Lakota Iyapi U_n Wowapi Naha_n Yawapi by Albert White Hat
Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux by Stanley Vestal
Stories of the Sioux by Luther Standing Bear
The Buffalo: The story of the American Bison and their Hunters from Prehistoric Times to the Present by Francis Haynes.
The history of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, 1800-2000
http://www.archive.org/details/64CC2DD6-94F0-432F-A419-5266F7AE0743
A free downloadable e-book in multiple formats available from the Internet Archive
Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region
http://www.swsbm.com/Ethnobotany/MissouriValley-Gilmore-1.pdf
Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Folktales Retold by Charles Eastman
Research Databases
All resources below are available on campus through any Sitting Bull College network. For remote and off campus access contact Sitting Bull College Library for a user name and password if applicable.
Anthrosource
http://www.anthrosource.net/
Full text access to the journals of the American Antropolical Association (available at this link on Sitting Bull College campus)
Ella Deloria Archive
http://zia.aisri.indiana.edu/deloria_archive/
A full text collection of the papers and documents of Ella Deloria
Native American Ethnobotany Database from the University of Michigan
http://herb.umd.umich.edu/
A searchable database of "… Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants."
Special Collections
Index to James E. Emery Recordings
http://www.sittingbull.edu/community/library/JamesEmery.pdf
Index to a collection of over three hundred CD recordings of traditional Lakota stories, music and history recorded by James E. Emery in the 1950's through the 1970's. This collection is available at Sitting Bull College Library.
Treaties
Resources for Information on treaties between the United States, various colonial powers and American Indian nations.
Documents Relating to the Negotiation of Ratified and Unratified Treaties with Various Indian Tribes 1801-1869
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/History/subcollections/IndianTreatiesMicroAbout.html
Includes a collection of ephemera surrounding treaties such as: instructions to treaty commisioners, reports, letters and in some cases treaties.
Early Recognized Treaties with the American Indian Nations
http://earlytreaties.unl.edu/index.html
A companion to Kappler that provides access to treaties between American Indian nations and colonizers between 1722 and 1805.
Kappler's Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/
The classic resource for accessing American Indian treaties online. Contains treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to American Indian tribes.
United States Papers regarding Indian Affairs
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsplink.html#anchor2
Legislative and executive documents dealing with Indian Affairs from 1789-1838.
Useful Websites
Lakota Winter Counts Online Exhibit
http://wintercounts.si.edu/
Minnesota Place Names
http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham/
Plains Indian Ledger Art
http://plainsledgerart.org/
Primeau.org
http://www.primeau.org/
A useful website dealing with Primeau family genealogy
Standing Rock History from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
http://www.standingrocktourism.com/history/index.asp
The History of Standing Rock from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Teaching Indigenous Languages
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html
A collections of links and information on the teaching of indigenous languages
