The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux reconciliation maintaining a distinct identity as

maintaining a distinct identity as Indians in a biracial South

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The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux reconciliation maintaining a distinct identity asThis book presents two of the most important traditions of the Dakota people, the Red Road and the Holy Dance, as told by Samuel Mniyo and Robert Goodvoice, two Dakota men from the Wahpeton Dakota Nation near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. Their accounts of these central spiritual traditions and other aspects of Dakota life and history go back seven generations and help to illuminate the worldview of the Dakota people for the younger generation