OGLALA RELIGION William K. Powers
This work discusses Oglala myth with a focus on creation stories, and the seven sacred ceremonies: Sun dance, Vision Quest, Sweat Lodge, Ghost Lodge, Puberty Ceremony, Hunka, and Sacred Ball Game. The author also demonstrates the symbolic relationship between myth and ritual through the use of the sacred numbers four and seven, and directional color symbolism. 6x9 233pp. ISBN 0-8032-8706-2 $15.95
YUWIPI: VISION AND EXPERIENCE IN OGLALA RITUAL William K. Powers
The first book written on Yuwipi based o;nt ehauthor's actual attendance at Sweat Lodges and Yuwipis conducted the late George Plenty Wolf. the ritual, originally conducted in Lakota, has been translated by the author and a short history of the ritual is included. 6X9 113 pp. ISBN 0-8032-8710-0 $19.95
WAR DANCE: Plains Indian Musical Performance William K. Powers
A study that includes the future of Plains music, and essays on the War Dance, powwow, and a reconsideration of the term "Pan-Indianism." also includes past reviews and essays on recordings by both Northern and Southern Plains singers. 6x9 199 pp. ISBN 0-8165-1365-1 $18.95
OGLALA WOMEN: MYTH, RITUAL AND REALITY Marla N. Powers
An in-depth study of the role of Lakota women in social organization and kinship, religion, and politics with material collected at Pine Ridge. Includes an extensive study of the relationship between myth and history and the Lakota reality underscoring both. 6x9 241 pp. ISBN 0-226-67749-4 $24.00
ADOPTED BY THE EAGLES Paul Goble Two Lakota boys become kolas (friends) and promise to sacrifice each other in defense of the other. ISBN: 0-689-82086-0. 40 pp. $5.99
BEYOND THE RIDGE Paul Goble A view of the spirit world from beyond the ridge. Death is only a change of worlds. ISBN:: 0-689-71731-8. 32 pp. $5.99
BUFFALO WOMAN Paul Goble A hunter draws his bow and aims at a buffalo who is transformed into a beautiful woman whom he must marry. ISBN: 0-689-71109-3. 32 pp. $6.99
LOVE FLUTE Paul Goble A love flute helps a young man be able to express to a girl things for which he has no words. ISBN: 0-689-81683-9. 32 pp. $5.99
STAR BOY Paul Goble A boy with a scarred face is healed by the sacred knowledge of the Sun Dance. ISBN: 0-689-71499-8. 32pp. $5.99
THE GREAT RACE Paul Goble The creator decrees that a race will be held between animals and humans, the result of which makes man the guardian of the world. ISBN: 0-689-71452-1. 32 pp. $5.99
HER SEVEN BROTHERS Paul Goble The Cheyenne legend of the Big Dipper. ISBN: 0-689-71730-X. $6.99
THE LOST CHILDREN Paul Goble A Blackfeet legend of the origin of the Pleiades Stars, in which six orphan brothers overturn their unhappiness by becoming stars. ISBN:0-689-81999-4. $5.99
DEATH OF THE IRON HORSE Paul Goble Story of a locomotive derailed by the Cheyenne in 1867. ISBN: 0-689-71686-9. $5.99
DREAM WOLF Paul Goble A wolf saves the lives of a brother and sister lost in the hills. ISBN: 0-689-81506-9. 32 pp. $6.99
THE GIFT OF THE SACRED DOG Paul Goble A story about the origin of the horse. ISBN: 0-689-43280-1. $5.99
THE GIRL WHO LOVED WILD HORSES Paul Goble A girl who takes care of her people's horses eventually becomes one of them to forever run free. ISBN: 0-689-71696-6. 32 pp. $5.99
OTOKAHEKAGAPI Sioux Creation Story Thomas Simms The Lakota origin of the world with Lakota captions. Ages 9-adult. $4.50
WHITE BUFFALO WOMAN Christine Crowl A child's version of the coming of the sacred pipe. All ages. $3.95
THE HUNTER AND THE WOODPECKER Christine Crowl The origin of the flute. All ages. $3.95
A LEGEND FROM THE CRAZY HORSE CLAN Moses Nelson Big Crow Story about the mother of the famous warrior, Crazy Horse. Grade 4-adult. $4.95
LESSONS OF THE FEATHER Calvin Thunderhawk The story of a young child named Star who is impatient to become a warrior. Grade 3-adult. $4.95
INDIAN LEGENDS Johanna R.M. Lyback A collection of origin myths of over 15 tribes. $7.95
HOKSILA AND THE RED BUFFALO Moses Nelson Big Crow A story about a young warrior chosen to battle a great buffalo. Grade 4-adult. $4.95
HOW THE BABY DEER GOT SPOTS Steven A. Roy How a friendly spirit bestowed the gift of natural protection. Grades 3-5. $3.95
RAVEN BRINGS TO THE PEOPLE ANOTHER GIFT Melissa Ann Reed Raven learns the pathway to wisdom by traveling. Grades 3-5 $3.95
HOW FIRE GOT INTO ROCKS AND TREES Steven A. Roy How fire came to the people a long time ago. Grades 3-5. $3.95
MUSIC :
LAKOTA SPIRITUAL SONGSNATIVE AMERICAN HEALING Howard P. Bad Hand. Plus a CD featuring songs in the book. A personal account by a Lakota singer and scholar about the use of song and ceremony in healing 265 pp. with translations. $32.50
LAKOTA CEREMONIAL SONGS John Around Him. Translated by Albert White Hat, Sr. It includes four pipe songs, four Sweat Lodge songs, two Vision Quest songs, and eight Sun Dance songs. The accompanying booklet is lingual and contains translations of songs as well as stories. It also features a pronunciation guide and glossary, and notes on how Lakota songs are structured. Cassette and Booklet $37.50 TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
THE NIGHT IS SACRED. CEREMONIAL PIPE SONGS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS Joseph Flying Bye. Six ceremonial pipe songs translated into English by a spiritual leader from the Little Eagle Community at Standing Rock. Contains prayers in Lakota and English. CD $18.95
****** TA PEJUTA (Women's Medicine) Dedicated to Women of All Nations by Pansy Hawk Wing. Twenty spiritual songs including White Buffalo Calf Pipe song, I Stand at the Center, Making a Relative Song, and A Sacred Stone has Come. CD $19.95
INIPI OLOWAN (Sweat Lodge Songs). Lakota Songs for the Common Man. Purification Ceremony. Rounds one through four by David Swallow, Jr. and Nyla Helper. CD $19.95
WAHANCANKA. Sixteen Lakota Pipe and Ceremonial songs by Shield, including Calling of the Spirit Songs, Healing Songs, and Emptying the Pipe Song. Cassette $19.95
WAHANCANKA: Remember Me Grandfather by Joseph Shields, Jr. (CD) Thirteen Lakota Pipe and Ceremonial Songs, Spotted Eagle Song, Spiritual Spider Song, and Encouragement Songs. $19.95
TAKUSKANSKAN. Something that moves. Vol I. Thirty Yuwipi Songs by Lorenzo Eagle Road, Elmer Running, and Harold White Horse. Cassette $16.95
TAKUSKANSKAN. Something that moves. Vol. II. Fourteen Yuwipi Songs by Harold White Horse, Elmer Running, Lorenzo Eagle Road, and Guildford Running. Cassette $16.95
WAKANHOYEYAPI (Sending a Sacred Voice). Wanbli Gleska Cik'ala from Parmelee on the Rosebud Reservation. A traditional Lakota singer specializing in ceremonial songs. Volumes 1-4 (cassette plus booklet with Lakota/English renditions of each song and pronunciation guide. Volumes 5-8 are CD's.
VOLUME 1. Thirteen Sun dance songs including Prayer and Pipe filling songs from Rosebud, South Dakota.. $16.95
VOLUME 2. Fifteen Sun dance songs including Prayer, Pipe filling songs, and song of Thanksgiving. $16.95
VOLUME 3. Fifteen Sun dance songs including including Prayer, Pipe filling songs, and song of Thanksgiving. $16.95
VOLUME 4. Thirteen Sun Dance Songs including Song for the Sun Dance Tree; Entrance song, and Prayer and Pipe Songs. $16.95
VOLUME 5. Twenty-one Prayer and Pipe songs .(Note: there is no accompanying booklet). $19.95
VOLUME 6. Sung by Dwight Provancial, Sr., Harold Thompson, Johnson Running, Cy Sanchez, James Shot with Two Arrows, Viola Provancial, and Elva thompson. Thirteen Prayer songs and one Pipe song. CD $19.95
VOLUME 7. Sung by Dwight Provancial, Sr., Harold White Horse, Joe Yellow Robe, Cy Sanchez, viola Provancial and Elva Thompson. Eleven Prayer songs, and two Pipe songs. CD $19.95
VOLUME 8. Sung by Dwight Provancial, Sr., Harold White Horse, Joe Yellow Robe, Johnson Running, Cy Sanchez, Viola Provancial, and Elva thompson. Entrance song, Eight Prayer songs, one Pipe song, and one Sending Sacred Voices Drum song. CD $19.95
ANPO ILOWAN. Singer of the Dawn. Spiritual songs by Florentine Blue Thunder of Rosebud. Cassette $16.95
SACRED DIRECTIONS. Thirteen songs by Earl Bullhead including Seven Winds song, Four Winds song, and Pipe Filling song. Cassette $16.95 (also available in CD $19.95)
HOKA WICASA. Singing Man. Twenty-eight Lakota vision Quest and Yuwipi songs by Lorenzo Eagle Road including Spotted Eagle songs, Talking songs, and Heyoka songs. Cassette $16.95
OLOWAN YUHAMANI. Walking with songs. Sixteen Lakota Vision Quest and Yuwipi songs by Lorenzo Eagle Road including Heyoka, Doctoring, and Stone songs. Cassette $16.95
PRAYER AND SUN DANCE. Volume 1. Twelve Prayer and Sun Dance songs by Tatanka Oyate, Fort Peck, Montana (in Dakota). Cassette $16.95
PRAYER AND SUN DANCE. Volume 2. Eleven Prayer and Sun Dance songs by Tatanka Oyate, Fort Peck, Montana (in Dakota). Cassette $16.95
PRAYER AND SUN DANCE. Volume 3. Eleven Prayer and Sun Dance songs by Tatanka Oyate, Fort Peck, Montana (in Dakota). $16.95
FRIEND, DO IT THIS WAY An interpretation of the Pipe Filling Song. Joseph Flying Bye The second CD by the late Joseph Flying bye. In speech and song, the words echo: Keep the young ones safe from the selfishness of the modern world. Pipe filling and honor songs with interpretation. CD $18.95
LAKOTA SACRED SONGS OF NATIVE AMERICAN HEALING Howard Bad Hand and Tom Teegarden . fifteen sacred songs with Lakota and English translations. "The words to these songs are powerful...and are particularly appropriate to contemporary times." CD $19.95
WAHACANKA: LAKOTA PIPE AND CEREMONIAL SONGS Joseph shields, Jr. Sixteen rarely recorded songs that accompany the Pipe Ceremony including Pipe, Calling of the Spirit, Healing, Eagle, Prayer, Going Away, and Emptying the Pipe songs. "Sung in honor of the Great Spirit." CD $19.95
SUN DANCE SONGS James Ironshell. Twelve songs and a dedication. Sun dance, Pipe filling, Spirit calling, Fasting, four directions, and Exit songs."It is representative of the sacrifice that the individual makes for the good of the tribe and all of mankind." CD $19.95
WORLD'S BEST VETERAN'S SONGS Twelve different drum groups sing Veteran and Victory songs of World Wars I and II, and Korea. Features Whitefish Bay, Black Lodge, Red Scaffold, Stoney Eagle, and Thunder Mountain singers among others. CD $19.95
WOCEKIYE OLOWAN Narrated and sung by David Swallow . Sixteen Prayer songs featuring Explanation in Lakota and English of the first eight. CD $19.95
SUN DANCE: LAKOTA SONGS by David Swallow, Jr. and Nyla Hellper. Sixteen Sun dance songs plus narration on contemporary meaning of the ceremony. CD $19.95
SUNDANCE SEASON by Loneman (CD). Fifteen songs of the Sun dance including Walking Upon Mother Earth, Creator's song, Mother's song, Four Winds. $19.95
ANPO WICAHPI: LAKOTA SUN DANCE AND CEREMONIAL SONGS by Dwight Provencial Sr. Eight Prayer songs and two Pipe songs. CD $19.95
WAKAN OLOWAN: SACRED SONGS by Rencel Last Horse and Austin Last Horse. Fourteen spiritual songs including Calling song, Doctoring song, Stone song, and Four Direction Flag song. CD $19.95
SKAN SKAN: LAKOTA SACRED SONGS by Dwight Provencial, Sr.; Harold White Horse; Joe Yellow Robe; Johnson Running; and Cy Sanchez. Wicaglata: Elva Thompson. From Rosebud, South Dakota. Twelve songs with translations including Ghost Song, Bear songs and Four Direction Song. CD $19.95
PILAMAYAYE by the White Horse Singers, Dwight Provencial, Sr. lead singer. Fiifteen songs with translations including two Vision Quest songs, six Heyoka songs and three Sun Dance songs. CD $19.95.
WOPILA: LAKOTA CEREMONIAL SONGS by the White Horse Singers, Dwight Provencial, Sr., lead singer. Twelve songs translated into English and German including Yuwipi, Sun Dance and Vision Quest Songs. CD $19.95.
OLD-TIME TRADITIONAL LAKOTA SONGS
WILLIAM HORNCLOUD SINGS: TRADITIONAL LAKOTA SONGS. Sixteen old-time songs featuring Honor Song by Charles Red Cloud, 2 Omaha Dance Songs, 4 War Songs, 3 Love Songs, 2 Rabbit Dance Songs, Marching Song, Chief's Honoring Song, Sioux National Anthem and Victory Song, and Round Dance Song. Sung in Lakota with English translations only with liner notes by William K. Powers. CD $19.95
WILLIAM HORNCLOUD SINGS: RABBIT DANCE SONGS OF THE LAKOTA. Recorded in 1971, these 13 Rabbit Dance Songs represent the best of traditional Lakota music. Begun in the second decade of the 20th century, these songs were accompanied by the only man/woman partner dance ever recorded for the Lakota. Sung in Lakota with English translations only with liner notes by William K. Powers. CD $19.95
SONS OF THE OGLALAS. 16 Old traditional Sioux Songs by Matthew and Nellie Two Bulls, Matthew Two Bulls, Jr., and Everette Lone Hill. War Dance Songs, Sioux National Anthem, Veteran Honoring songs, and Rabbit Dance songs. CD $19.95
SONS OF THE OGLALAS. 12 Old traditional Sioux songs by Matthew and Nellie Two Bulls, Enoch and Zach Two Bulls, and Fred Stands. Flag, Veteran's, Vets Killed in Action, Sneak Up, Show Song, Song for Retired Dancers, Intertribal War Dance, and Round Dance songs. CD $19.95
SONGS OF THE OGLALA NATION. Featuring Porcupine Singers, Manderson Singers, Pass Creek Singers, Kiyuksayapi Singers and Eagle Mountain Singers. Ten songs including Intertriball, Staight song, Contest Song and Woman's Fance Song. CD $19.95
PORCUPINE SINGERS: TRADITIONAL LAKOTA SONGS. Severt Young Bear, Sr., Henry Green Crow, David Clairmont, James Clairmont, Frances Menard, Ronnie Theisz, Calvin Jumping Bull, and Philip Wright. Ten traditional songs including National Anthem and Vet's song, Little Big Horn Battle song, Sneak-Up Dance, Jealous Woman, Bark of the Dog, Song of the Fallen Warrior, and Birthday song. CD $19.95
HO HWO JU LAKOTA SINGERS: TRADITIONAL SONGS OF THE SIOUX. Nine traditional songs including Veteran's songs, Grass Dance Songs, Honor Song, and Rabbit Dance songs. CD $19.95
CRAZY HORSE SINGERS: 1876 by Tasunke Witko Oka. Twelve traditional songs by Moses Runs Against, Richard Elk Boy, Sam Long Black Cat, S. Witt, Terry Spoonhunter, Bruce Badmilk, Emmanuel Blackbear, Matthew Two Bulls. Includes Crazy Horse Drum song, Bush's Tune, Prairie Wings, Rocky Ford Badlalnds, Highway #18, Hit em High, Civil Defence, 1876, Sons of the Oglalas and Rattlesnake. CD $19.95
PORCUPINE SINGERS. RABBIT DANCE SONGS, PART 1 by Severt Young Bear, Calvin Jumping Bull, Ronnie Theisz, Melvin Young Bear, Tom Thunder Hawk. Eight songs including From Katie to Grandma Kate, The New Deal Will Break Your Heart, Crazy Young Man Song, Crush On You Song, Crying Day and Night Song. CA $16.95
PORCUPINE SINGERS. RABBIT DANCE SONGS, PART 2. Eight songs including Black Hills Special, Homewrecker Song, Take Me Home Song, Name Calling Song, and Song of the Mistreated Woman. CA $16.95.
RED CLOUD SINGERS. SIOUX WAR DANCE By Oliver Red Cloud (current Chief of the Oglala), John Tonto Black Bear, Marty Red Cloud, Tydell Eagle Hawk, Guy Red Cloud, Sam No Moccasin. Nine traditional War Dance songs. CA $16.95
SOUNDS OF THE BADLANDS SINGERS. By Roy A. Azure, III, Matthew Big Fork, Russell Denny, Gary Drum, Ben Gray Hawk, Gerald R. Lambert, Adrian and Leland Spotted Bird. Ten Grass Dance Songs. CA $16.95
THE BADLANDS SINGERS: KAHOMNI SONGS. By Bradlely Buffalo Calf, Lyle E. and Russell Denny, Gary Drum, Ben Gray Hawk, Earl Jones, Jr., Bill Runsabove, George Squirrel Coat, Mike G. Talks Different, Donald P. White Bear. Ten Kahomni (Round Dance) songs. CA $16.95
THE SIOUX TRAVELERS: TWELVE WAR DANCE SONGS. Mixed War Dance and Fast War Dance Songs. CA $16.95
FRANK FOOLS CROW, HOLY MAN. Traditional songs and Prayers from Chief Frank Fools Crow, famous holy man of the Lakota. Prayers, songs, and life experiences. CA $16.95
