Frances Densmore

A renowned ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution offers a fascinating wealth of material on nearly 200 plants that were used by the Chippewas of Minnesota and Wisconsin. The volume provides an emphasis on wild plants and their lesser-known uses. 33 plates.

Sometime in August of 1913, two Sioux warriors, Old Buffalo and Swift Dog, met with Frances Densmore at a makeshift recording site in McLaughlin, South Dakota. What Old Buffalo and Swift Dog said that day, about life, as they knew it before the reservation era began-lives on still in the pages of this fascinating book. Densmore went on to interview numerous Sioux (or Lakota) men and women, collecting both their songs and their stories. The present...