TY - BOOK AU - Walker,J.R. AU - Jahner,Elaine ED - State Historical Society of Colorado. TI - Lakota myth SN - 0803297068 (pbk.) AV - E99.O3 W1715 1983 U1 - ARCH YNDC 978 W177L PY - 1983/// CY - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press KW - Oglala mythology KW - Oglala Indians KW - Folklore N1 - "Published in cooperation with the Colorado Historical Society."; "A Bison book, BB 848"--Spine; Includes index; Bibliography: p. [407]-411 N2 - Publisher description: The papers of James R. Walker, physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914, are noted for the information they have yielded about Lakota life and culture. This third volume of previously unpublished material from the Walker collection presents his work with Lakota myth and legend. Three categories of literature are represented: tales that are classic examples of Lakota oral literature, narratives that were known only to a few Oglala holy men, and Walker's literary cycle representing his attempts to systematize all he had learned about Lakota myth ER -