Sioux legends / Nauman Films in cooperation with South Dakota Dept. of Highways.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Nauman, Charles W., director.

Nauman, H. Jane, screenwriter.

Nauman Films, producer.

South Dakota. Department of Highways, producer.

Cinema Guild, Inc., distributor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dakota Indians--Folklore.

Dakota Indians.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Legends.

Physical Description:

1 videocassette (20 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Custer, SD : Nauman Films ; New York, NY : Cinema Guild, Inc., [distributor], [between 2000 and 2009?]

System Details:

VHS.

analog

magnetic

VHS

Summary:

Members of the Sioux tribes in South Dakota act out several legends and folktales. Tries to give an impression of Indian culture and daily life before the arrival of the white man and shows the universality of folklore.

Credits:

Director and cinematographer, Charles W. Nauman; writer and editor, H. Jane Nauman; music, Library of Congress Archives.

Notes:

Includes legends of the sacred pipe and White Buffalo Woman; where flowers go in wintertime, the flood legend; Old Woman quilling at the edge of the world; recording the Winter Count.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

OCLC:

32601055