Mato Najinhan Tiospaye

Contemporary Sources

Joseph M. Marshall III

The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living

Walking With Grandfather: The Wisdom of Lakota Elders*

The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

 

Ed McGaa

Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World

Native Wisdom: Perceptions of the Natural Way*

Rainbow Tribe: Ordinary People Journeying on the Red Road*

Nature's Way: Native Wisdom for Living in Balance with the Earth

 

Henry Niese

The Man Who Knew the Medicine: The Teachings of Bill Eagle Feather*

 

Archie Fire Lame Deer

Gift of Power: The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man

 

Leonard C. Dog

Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men

 

Wallace Black Elk

Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota

 

Michael Hull

Sun Dancing*

 

David Little Elk

Wicoh’an Otehike: The Difficult Path

 

Raymond Bucko

The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice*

 

Historical Sources

 
Dee Brown

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West*

 

John (Fire) Lame Deer

Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions*

 

James R. Walker

Lakota Society*

Lakota Belief and Ritual*

The Sons of the Wind: The Sacred Stories of the Lakota*

 

William K. Powers

Sacred Language: The Nature of Supernatural Discourse in Lakota

Oglala Religion*

Yuwipi: Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual

 

Thomas E. Mails

Fools Crow

Fools Crow: Wisdom and Power*

Sundancing: The Great Sioux Piercing Ceremony*

 

John G. Neihardt

Black Elk Speaks

 

Karl Markus Kreis, Raymond A. Bucko, and Corinna Dally-Starna

Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women: German Reports from the Indian Missions in South Dakota

 

Joseph Epes Brown

The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux*

Animals of the Soul: Sacred Animals of the Oglala Sioux

 
Historical and Contemporary Social Analysis

 
Fergus M. Bordewich

Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century*

 

Vine Deloria Jr

God Is Red, 30th Anniversary Edition

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto

Red Earth, White Lies

 
Language

 
David Little Elk

Cante Etanhan Owoglake: Speaking from the Heart*

 

Albert White Hat Sr.

Reading and Writing the Lakota Language

 

Jan Ullrich

Lakhotiya Woglaka Po! - Speak Lakota!

 

Eugene Buechel and Paul Manhart

Lakota Dictionary: Lakota-English / English-Lakota, New Comprehensive Edition*

 

Books marked with (*) are the required reading list.