Historical Voices of the Plains Earth Lodge Peoples II

FAIN: RQ-50900-14

Trustees of Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 47405-7000)
Douglas R. Parks (Project Director: January 2014 to July 2018)

Preparation for print and digital publication of fifteen volumes of previously unpublished field notes about four native tribes of the American Great Plains, collected by anthropologists in the 19th and early 20th centuries. (36 months)

Focusing on a large body of unpublished works that document cultures of four American Indian tribes of the Great Plains--Pawnee, Arikara, Hidatsa, and Mandan--these unique documents provide detailed descriptions of those tribes’ cultures and languages recorded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the words of prominent members who lived those cultures or remembered the words of their elders. By publishing extant documentary records, today’s tribal members will gain sophisticated knowledge and appreciation of their heritage. Scholars will develop a better understanding of native cultures. Although Native Americans are integral to the historical and cultural development of the United States, primary sources describing traditional cultures in native voices are not available. The published record has been filtered through the lens of Western culture. Using these four tribes as representative cases, this project proposes the creation of a new library of Plains Indian cultures.

Associated Products

Historical Voices of the Plains earth Lodge Peoples II (Web Resource)
Title: Historical Voices of the Plains earth Lodge Peoples II
Author: Douglas Parks
Abstract: Awarded this past summer, the Historical Voices grant, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a significant undertaking in regards to publishing, in print and digital formats, previously unpublished collections. The project, which is set to last three years, compiles together fifteen volumes of linguistic texts and ethnographic reports made by both 19th and 20th century tribal scholars and relevant anthropologists
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://www.iub.edu/~aisri

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