{"product_id":"walks-on-the-ground-9781496212801","title":"Walks on the Ground","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA record of Louis V. Headman's personal study of the Southern Ponca people, spanning seven decades beginning with the historic notation of the Ponca people's origins in the East. The last of the true Ponca speakers and storytellers entered Indian Territory in 1877 and most lived into the 1940s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There are many audiences for this volume,\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ebut, read in tandem with Headman's \u003ci\u003eDictionary of the Ponca People\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), it speaks most powerfully to the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of the Ponca people. Here are the embers left to rekindle Ponca culture and language!\"—Beth R. Ritter, \u003ci\u003eGreat Plains Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Headman has produced an important work for the Great Plains region and for the growing literature of Indigenous-produced histories.\"—Phoebe Labat, \u003ci\u003eSouth Dakota History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This superb history of the Ponca Nation is part of the University of Nebraska Press’s effort to publish First Nations’ histories written by native historians, rather than outsiders. . . . Throughout Headman amplifies, clarifies, and enriches topics, emphasizing Ponca as a distinct nation, though reduced in numbers over time. This substantial volume should be absorbed, not skimmed.\"—A. B. Kehoe, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Headman positions himself as one in a long and ongoing chain of Ponca storytellers, and by bringing together voices of a prior generation of tribal elders and adapting those stories to a written format, Headman participates in the long history of Ponca resiliency and adaptation \u003ci\u003eWalks on the Ground\u003c\/i\u003e narrates.\"—David Dry, \u003ci\u003eChronicles of Oklahoma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book is a jewel because it presents an insider’s view drawn from the insights of Ponca elders with whom the author talked during many years while simultaneously bringing outside scholarly assessments into the mix. Specialists on the American Indian, whether anthropologists, archaeologists, sociologists, political scientists, or historians, as well as the general reader, will gain insights from the work.”—Blue Clark, professor of American Indian Studies at Oklahoma City University\u003cbr\u003e“A welcome model of how to do collaborative ethnography from within a culture and how to synthesize and evaluate information from multiple sources. . . . This volume, in an accessible way, leads the reader toward an understanding of how to see the Ponca as the Ponca see themselves.”—Regna Darnell, Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhonetic Key\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1 Beginnings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2 Niobrara\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3 Trade Agreements, Indian Treaties, and Indian Removal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4 Chief Standing Bear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5 Indian Territory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6 The Selection of Ponca Chiefs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7 The Ponca Reservation in Oklahoma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8 Ethnography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9 The Ponca Give Away\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10 The Old Ponca Heđúška\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11 New Hedúškà Dance Paraphernalia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12 The Ponca Singers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13 Ponca Heđúška Songs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14 Family Structure and Kinship System\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15 Marriage and Property\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 16 Clans of the Ponca\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 17 Ponca Names\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 18 Toys, Games, and Sports\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 19 Arts and Crafts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 20 The Ponca Native American Church\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 21 The Christian Church in the Ponca Community\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 22 The Spirit World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 23 The Funeral Rites\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 24 Ancient Ponca Burials and Practices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 25 Ponca Medicine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 26 Journey to The School House\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 27 Into The School House\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 28 Warriors of the Ponca\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 29 Political Governance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409224311127,"sku":"9781496212801","price":62.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496212801.jpg?v=1730506024","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/walks-on-the-ground-9781496212801","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}