A Dancing People

by Clyde Ellis

Book Overview

This volume is a comprehensive history of of Southern Plains powwow culture - an interdisciplinary, highly collaborative ethnography based on more than two decades of participiation in powwows - addressing how the powwow has changed over time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700612742
• ISBN13: 9780700612741
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive, personal as well as academic.

[...] As a professional writer always looking for trustworthy research material, I found this book while looking for material on the modern custom of Native American "powwowing". During the summers, Native American peoples travel around the American West and Southwest, visiting dance festivals large and small they call powwows, where they hold dance contests. Dr. Clyde Ellis spent many years studying the several Indian tribes of Oklahoma, eventually becoming adopted into the culture and learning to dance himself. In this book, which is an anthropological text masquerading as an accessible book, a reader will learn about several important Native American dances, their histories and historians, and the great services they have afforded the People. The dancing has been one of the most important things that served to sustain all Native Americans through the last two genocidal centuries. Excellent.