George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition graphic novels All We Have to Do

All We Have to Do Is Ask

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist

WHEREAS is an ambitious

the Native and the non-Native

But her interests are not limited to science

George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition graphic novels All We Have to DoThe 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