About the Author

Rani-Henrik Andersson holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Tampere in Finland. He has served as the McDonnell Douglas Chair, Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki and is currently working as a Core Fellow at the University of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He has published a number of scholarly articles about topics in Native American history, and has held a position as a visiting research fellow at Indiana University where he worked with Lakota experts Ray DeMallie and Doug Parks. Andersson is the author of The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 (University of Nebraska Press, 2008).

David C. Posthumus holds a PhD in Anthropology and is the author of All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual and the novel The Legend of the Dogman. He is Senior Market Analyst at The Martec Group.

Reviews

“In this rangy, ambitious work, Rani-Henrik Andersson and David C. Posthumus center LakȟÓta voices, language, and conceptual worlds to craft a stunning narrative that takes readers on a journey far removed from old familiar histories. LakȟÓta: An Indigenous History is a remarkable and important contribution, one not to be missed.”—Philip J. Deloria, author of Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract

“This book surpasses earlier histories of the Lakȟóta. With its meticulous attention to the distinctive cultural and complex political foundations of the Lakȟóta, it sets a new standard in Plains Indian scholarship.”—Mark van de Logt, author of War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army

“Lakȟóta: An Indigenous History brilliantly contextualizes winter counts and other Lakȟóta sources to reveal a Native point of view on events commonly interpreted through a Western lens.”—Candace S. Greene, coeditor of The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian

"In revealing how Lakhota traditions illuminate this people's perspectives on their own past, Rani-Henrik Andersson and David C. Posthumus have rendered a clear, comprehensive exploration of Lakhota experience, initiative, and endurance. Lakhota: An Indigenous History is a rare achievement."—Louis S. Warren, author of God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America