Review of Lakota Storytelling: Black Elk, Ella Deloria, and Frank Fools Crow

Authors

Thomas F. Schilz, Miramar College

Date of this Version

1990

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly SUMMER 1990 .Copyright 1990 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

Abstract

The reciting of oral traditions, or storytelling, is the oldest form of human literary achievement. But because time changes everything, including oral traditions, human societies finally are forced to put their stories into written form to preserve them for posterity.