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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This acclaimed volume has been out of print and difficult to access for many years. It is our good fortune that the new 50th Anniversary edition makes this important work readily available. . . . Anyone interested in Native American history, culture, and art owes a debt of gratitude to the University of Nebraska Press for publishing and then republishing this invaluable volume."—Ann Billesbach,
Nebraska History"This book is beautiful. It is beautifully organized, beautifully analyzed, and beautifully crafted. The University of Nebraska Press has produced, or more accurately reproduced, a wonderful work that reaches a broad range of audiences. . . . This endeavor was clearly a labor of love for all who worked on it. From the dual-textured cover, to the high-quality paper, to the generosity of the editor and the press in allowing blank pages to beautify the transitions between sections of text, this project produced a beautiful and invaluable historical work."—Jeffrey D. Means,
South Dakota History"This lavish 50th anniversary edition of
A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux is indispensable not just for specialists, but anyone interested in American Indian history. Through a careful reading of Bad Heart Bull's drawings, Lakota history and culture come to life, offering a wholly Native perspective on this transformational time."—Bradley Shreve,
Tribal College Journal"This fiftieth-anniversary edition makes Bad Heart Bull's art and his work as a historian available to new audiences. It will remain a valuable resource for scholars in multiple fields, including Native American history, historical geography, and art history."—Christopher Steinke,
Historical Geography"This five-pound, 50th-anniversary labor of love reproduces all 414 ledger pages of Amos Bad Heart Bull's annotated pictorial history of his Oglala Lakota people, with digitized prints of the glass plate photographs of the original."—A. B. Kehoe,
Choice“The significance of Amos Bad Heart Bull’s work to our understanding of Plains Indian history cannot be overstated. It is an unparalleled Native account documenting Oglala Lakota life during the tumultuous period of the 1860s to the 1910s. This anniversary issue provides both enhanced illustrations and additional context from the past fifty years, making it even more valuable to the Native and scholarly communities and everyone interested in American Indian art, culture, and history.”—Christina E. Burke, curator of Native American and non-Western art at the Philbrook Museum of Art
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A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux was published in 1967, instantly becoming a landmark volume of Native history and art, a status that it retains five decades later. Until this month, however, [the text] could only be found in libraries, private collections and, for a price, at booksellers. . . . To remedy that and celebrate a half-century of the book, a 50th Anniversary Edition of
A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux has just been published. On shelves for a little over a week, the 648-page volume . . . reproduces and augments the original with newly reproduced images of the drawings and a pair of introductory essays."—L. Kent Wolgamott,
Lincoln Journal Star"This 50th anniversary edition improves on the earlier version by sourcing many of the images to the original glass plate negatives of the reproductions, which had surfaced in the 1980s. The edition endeavours to utilize modern techniques to enhance the overall quality of these astonishing images and faithfully reproduce the attendant text, while also allowing the cumulation of decades of research since the original manuscript to respectfully deflate some of the attendant legends, and clarify details with the latest understandings. The result is one of the finest accounts of the life and times of these storied peoples available anywhere."—Jeff Carter,
Pop MattersTable of ContentsPublisher’s Preface for the new edition
A Short History of Amos Bad Heart Bull and Helen Blish, by Emily Levine
Significance of the Ledger Drawings, by Candace Greene
Publisher’s Preface
List of Color Plates
List of Illustrations
Introduction by Mari Sandoz
Foreword by Helen H. Blish
Dedication
PART ONE
Chapter I The Artist and His Work
Chapter II Dakota Histories and Historical Art
Chapter III The Bad Heart Bull Manuscript as History
Chapter IV Bad Heart Bull as an Artist
Chapter V Dakotan Art and Thought
PART TWO
Chapter VI Introduction to the Drawings
Chapter VII The Drawings
Bibliography
Appendix: Descriptive Listing of the Drawings
A Note on the Editing
The Artist and The Author
Note on Images
Index
