A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux, 50th Anniversary Edition

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Originally published in 1967, this remarkable pictographic history consists of more than four hundred drawings and script notations by Amos Bad Heart Bull, an Oglala Lakota man from the Pine Ridge Reservation, made between 1890 and the time of his death in 1913. The text, resulting from nearly a decade of research by Helen H. Blish and initially presented as a three-volume report to the Carnegie Institution, provides ethnological and historical background and interpretation of the content. 

This 50th anniversary edition provides a fresh point of view on Bad Heart Bull’s drawings through digital scans of the original photographic plates created when Blish was once doing her research. Lost for almost half a century—and unavailable when the 1967 edition was once being assembled—the recently found out plates are actually housed on the Smithsonian’s National Anthropological Archives. Readers of the volume will encounter new introductions by Emily Levine and Candace S. Greene, crisp images and notations, and additional material that in the past seemed only in a limited collection of copies of the original edition.
 

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