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Ibid., page 199.
Ella Deloria. _Dakota Texts_. Vermillion, South Dakota:Dakota Press,
1977. Page 34.
Ella Deloria. _Waterlily_. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of
Nebraska Press, 1988. Page 20.
She (Marie McLaughlin) was one-quarter Mdewankton Sioux (Eastern
Sioux from Minnesota), born in 1842, assimilated, and married to a
white Indian agent.
Marie L. McLaughlin. _Myths and Legends of the Sioux_.
Lincoln,Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
Deloria, Ella. _Dakota Texts_. Ibid., p. xiv.
McLaughlin, Marie. Ibid., p. 186.
Ibid., p. 187.
Walker, James. Ibid., p. 141.
Black Elk says, "twins are born four times, but not others. You have
to treat twins well, because they are easily irritated. If you do not
treat them nicely a twin can die at any time if you are not nice. Then
they come to someone else." Raymond DeMallie, ed. _The Sixth
Grandfather_. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska, 1984. Page
380.
Ibid., p. 300.
Black Elk, Charlotte. Ibid., p. 211.
Ibid., p. 214.
Walker, James. Ibid., p. 149.
As defined by Charlotte Black Elk in her testimony this (Tata
Gnaxkiya) breaks down into ta - monster (tata is the superlative),
gnaxki - the child of Unk who is the principal of evil, and ya - to be
from. Ibid., p. 213.
Deloria, Ella. Ibid., p. 33.
In interesting side note, Black Elk tells of the actual killing of a
real "Crazy Buffalo" and relates that when they cut it open its organs
were filled with dirt, it lungs were shrunken up and it couldnUt have
lived anyway. Demallie, Raymond. Ibid., p. 365.
Black Elk, Charlotte. Ibid., p. 213-214.
As noted by Black Elk, "The term red and blue days is really far more
than a wish for good weather, for the Sioux believe that these are the
days at the end of the world when the moon will turn red and the sun
will turn blue." Joseph Epes Brown. _The Sacred Pipe_. Norman,
Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. Page 19n.
Ibid., p. 214.
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