Review of The Sioux and Other Native American Cultures of the Dakotas: An Annotated Bibliography Compiled by Herbert T. Hoover and Karen P. Zimmerman

Authors

Steve Potts, Arrowhead Community College

Date of this Version

1995

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 15:2 (Spring 1995). Copyright © 1995 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Abstract

This volume is an excellent supplement to Hoover and Jack Marken's 1980 Bibliography of the Sioux, and the two volumes can be used together for a thorough treatment of the Sioux. The title of this volume, however, is somewhat misleading. Material related to Sioux origins in Minnesota is included and recent materials on the Arikara, Hidatsa, Mandan, and Ojibway are omitted; after the first chapter, most annotations are on the Sioux. The authors note in their introduction that this volume complements South Dakota History, a 1993 bibliography of the state's history, and the two volumes share a common index. In some cases items seem to have been arbitrarily included in one volume that perhaps belong in another, particularly references to Indian-white relations. The two 1993 bibliographies should be used in conjunction for complete treatment of recent Sioux history.