George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition graphic novels A beautifully illustrated Alaska Native

A beautifully illustrated Alaska Native story of a young boy and his encounter with the fabled Fox Man

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George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition graphic novels A beautifully illustrated Alaska NativeThe general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been in the study of content rather than process in oral traditions. In a new disclosure of the characteristics of Lakota oral style, Delphine Red Shirt shows how its composition and structure are reflected in the work of George Sword, who composed 245 pages of text in the Lakota language using the English alphabet. What emerges in Sword's Lakota narratives are the formulaic patterns inherent in