Date: 1 Mar 91 07:18:43 GMT
From: NativeNet@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Subject: Re: Lakhota Instructional Materials
Message-ID: <1003@gnosys.svle.ma.us>
The following article is taken from the "Indian Affairs" Fidonet conference.
From: Fred Towner
To: All Msg #59, 11:47pm Feb-23-91
Subject: Dakota/Lakota Language
Hi All...
Back a little while ago someone was asking about sources for
learning these languages. I'd totally forgotten about a good
source that I knew of (put it down to old age).
Iroqrafts Ltd., R.R. #2, Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada N0A 1M0
has the following items for sale.
Catalogue # 50600
DAKOTA Language - A. Ross. A beginning language
and simple sentence cassette for the "D" dialect
of the Sioux.
Catalogue # 50610 $120.00
LAKOTA Language tapes - 11, 60 minute cassetes
designed to accompany items 50611 and 50612. The
"L" dialect of the Sioux. The language of Crazy
Horse, Sitting Bull and Red Cloud. Emphasis is
on oral, rather than written Sioux.
Catalogue # 50611 $12.95
LAKOTA Language I - Mathieu, Chasing Hawk,
Badwound, 68 pages, 1978. Through a series of
dialogues approximating daily encounters and a
minimum of overt grammatical detail students
learn a functional Sioux. Accompanies tapes 1-5
in 50610 above.
Catalogue # 50612 $12.96
LAKOTA Language II - 56 pages, 1978. As above;
covers tapes 5-11 in 50610 above.
Catalogue #50900 $4.95
INDIAN SIGN LANGUAGE - W. Tomkins, 108 pages, 8
photos, innumberable illustrations, circa 1928.
Learned initially over a 10-year period from
Indians while working as a rangler adjacent to a
Dakota Territory Sioux reservation and
subsequently refined over his lifetime from
contacts among sign-talkers of recognized ability
in other Indian Nations, Tomkins produced the
first practical working text of all-Indian signs.
Some 30 pages with an average of 15 signs per
page are shown. On facing page is written
description of the sign (in some cases a compound
of several signals). Then follows a section on
sign syntax (sentence formation) and synonyms.
Particularly useful are 140 practice sentences
and three anecdotes given in standard English and
accompanied by a break-down into their component
sign-talk equivalents. Concludes with two
playlettes which can be acted out in signs for
further practical use. Finally, rounding out the
book are sections on alalogous subjects:
picture-writing of the Sioux and Ojibwa (with
examples of pictographic stories and winter
counts); and smoke signals.
I regret I don't have their phone number here (it's at work),
but the number is available through directory assistance. I
believe Caledonia is the nearest centre, and the one to refer
directory assistance to should you inquire that way.
Fred, VE6XX
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Date: 4 Mar 91 22:24:00 GMT
From: NativeNet@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Subject: Re: Lakhota Instructional Materials
Message-ID: <AE4AF01911DFE02417@AUSTEN.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Finally some Lakota/Dakota books I was meaning to post about:
I finally got the name of the dictionary I was referring to. You order it
through the Hole-In-The-Wall Bookstore, at the following address:
Hole-in-the-Wall Bookstore
Wall Drug Store, Inc.
P.O. Box 401
Wall, South Dakota 57790
(605) 279-2175
FAX# (605) 279-2699
The dictionary I purchased is a very large book, and I believe it cost $33 plus
shipping:
_Dictionary-OIE_
_Wowapi_Wan_of_Teton_Sioux_
Lakota-English
English-Lakota
by Rev. Eugene Buechel, S.J.
Edited by Rev. Paul Manhart, S.J.
Library of Congress: 74-114-669
The store (Wall) itself doesn't stock the book, but you buy it through them
from someone else. I also forgot that person's name.
Wall itself actually carries some other interesting books (not all of which
I would read though) and it has a smaller dictionary with only 3800 entries,
some idiom drills, and rules for forming sentences:
_Everyday_Lakota:__an_English_-_Sioux Dictionary_
(no author listed, but of St. Francis Mission. 122 pages)
it costs $4.95 plus shipping.
I guess this one would probably be better for ordering for beginning
courses, but I haven't got one yet, so I don't know if it's written well
or not.
I've also got names for a couple of Dakota (not Lakota, but presumably it is
mostly the same as far as grammar goes) grammars:
_Dakota_Grammar_(reprint of 1941 ed.)
Boas, Franz & Daloria, Ella
ISBN 0-404-11829-1 AMS Pr.
My friend said this was listed for $29.50, but I don't have it yet. Also:
_Dakota_Grammar_
Riggs, Stephen R.
ISBN 0-87018-052-5 Ross
My friend said this was listed for $20. I have neither of these grammars,
but the person who looked them up said they are still in print.
I'm still looking for Lakota teachers in the Seattle area. Thanks.
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 08:41:06 MST
From: NativeNet@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Subject: Re: Lakhota Instructional Materials
Message-ID: <Q7F20BBA@pc-koontz>
In response to Jim Wilson's query, materials for learning Lakota:
A variety of books and tapes on the Lakhota dialect of Dakota are
available from the C.U. Lakhota Project at the University of Colorado,
Boulder, Colorado.
Beginning Lakhota I (337 pp.) $18 US
Beginning Lakhota II (331 pp.) $18 US
Vols I and II together $35 US
Elementary Bilingual Dictionary:
English-Lakhota, Lakhota-English (317 pp.) $12 US
Lakhota Wayawapi, Graded Readings (134 pp.) $10 US
Tapes to accompany Beg. Lakh. I
(6 tapes, c. 1 hr. each) $30 US
Note that tapes are for the previous edition
of the lessons and do not match the present
edition exactly. They are, however, thoroughly
usable.
Order from: C.U. Lakhota Project
Dept. of Linguistics
Campus Box 239
Univ. of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Makes checks payable to "C.U. Lakhota Project."
Customer is billed after shipping for postage and handling
charges.
This information from SSILA Newsletter VIII.3:13a.
Disclosure: I am a part time employee of the Center for the
Study of the Native Languages of the Plains and Southwest, an
affiliate of the Dept. of Linguistics at the University of
Colorado. Conceivably, I may benefit indirectly from purchases
of C.U. Lakhota Project purchases.
Lakhota vs. Lakota: The Dakotan dialects contrast aspirated and
unaspirated stops (ph vs. p, th vs. t, ch vs c, kh vs. k),
whereas English does not. The spelling Lakhota, used in the
orthography of the CULP materials reflects the fact that the k in
Lakhota is aspirated. Lakota is the English spelling. Some
systems of Lakhota spelling that do not mark aspiration also
write Lakota.
Other materials:
The A. Ross tape Dakota Language mentioned in the 1-MAR-91
NativeNet contribution by Gary Trujillo is nice, but deals
with the Dakhota or Santee dialect (one of the d-dialects of
Dakotan, as opposed to Lakhota, the l-dialect).
The best published descriptive grammar of Lakhota:
Boas, Franz; Deloria, Ella. 1941. Dakota grammar. National
Academy of Sciences, Memoir 23, Pt. 2. Washington, DC: US
Government Printing Office. Reprinted 1979, Vermillion, SD:
The Dakota Press.
The best published dictionary of Lakhota:
Buechel, Eugene, compiler; Manhart, Paul, ed. 1970. A diction-
ary of the Teton Dakota Sioux language ... Lakota-English;
English-Lakota. Vermillion abd Pine Ridge, SD: Institute of
Indian Studies, University of South Dakota & Red Cloud Indian
School, Inc., of Holy Rosary Mission.
The English-Lakota section is an index to the Lakota-English
section, not a dictionary in its own right.
The orthography of this dictionary does not mark aspiration
consistently, but it is often possible to deduce its presence
even when it is not marked, by cross comparing entries,
noting part of speech, etc.
There are some systematic differences in orthography between
the headwords of the Lakota-English section and other contexts.
Traditional Texts:
Deloria, Ella C. 1932. Dakota texts. Publications of the
American Ethnological Society, No. 14. New York,: G.E.
Stechert. Reprinted 1974, New York: AMS Press.
In the orthography of Boas & Deloria.
Bibliography:
Reuse, Willem J. de. 1987. One hundred years of Lakota
linguistics (1887-1987). Kansas Working Papers in
Linguistics 12:13-42.
Reuse, Willem J. de. 1990. A supplementary bibliography of
Lakota language and linguistics (1887-1990). Kansas Working
Papers in Linguistics 15.2:146-165.
KWPL is available from the Linguistics Graduate Student Asso-
ciation at the Unversity of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
Willem de Reuse's e-mail address: wdereuse@ccit.arizona.edu