Tatanka and the Lakota People: A Creation Story.Tatanka and the Lakota People The Lakota (IPA: [laˈkˣota]) (also Lakhota, Teton, Titonwon) are a Native American tribe. : A Creation Story Donald F. Montileaux, illustrator South Dakota South Dakota (dəkō`tə), state in the N central United States. It is bordered by North Dakota (N), Minnesota and Iowa (E), Nebraska (S), and Wyoming and Montana (W). State Historical Society Press 900 Governors Drive, Pierre, SC 57501-2217 0974919586 $16.95 www.sdshspress.com Tatanka and the Lakota People: A Creation Story is a bilingual English/Lakota picturebook recounting a traditional creation story from the Lakota (also called Sioux) Indians. The striking and symbolic color paintings, deliberately created in a style to reflect the art created on buffalo hides by the illustrator's Lakota ancestors, add a vivid dimension to the tale. The story tells of the Trickster trickster, a mythic figure common among Native North Americans, South Americans, and Africans. Usually male but occasionally female or disguised in female form, he is notorious for exaggerated biological drives and well-endowed physique; partly divine, partly human, who fooled the Pte Oyate (Buffalo Nation) into leaving the Underworld Underworld See also Hell. Unfaithfulness (See FAITHLESSNESS.) Ungratefulness (See INGRATITUDE.) Unkindness (See CRUELTY, INHOSPITALITY.) Aidoneus epithet of Hades. [Gk. Myth. , where they became the Ordinary People and needed help to survive. Tatanka, the holy man, provided that help by turning himself into a Buffalo and sacrificed his powers for the sake of the people. A profound tale, presented with great respect for Lakota culture. |
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