How Long to Read The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux

How Long Does it Take to Read The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 38 minutes to read The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux by Samuel Mniyo

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book presents two of the most important traditions of the Dakota people, the Red Road and the Holy Dance, as told by Samuel Mniyo and Robert Goodvoice, two Dakota men from the Wahpeton Dakota Nation near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. Their accounts of these central spiritual traditions and other aspects of Dakota life and history go back seven generations and help to illuminate the worldview of the Dakota people for the younger generation of Dakotas, also called the Santee Sioux. “The Good Red Road,” an important symbolic concept in the Holy Dance, means the good way of living or the path of goodness. The Holy Dance (also called the Medicine Dance) is a Dakota ceremony of earlier generations. Although it is no longer practiced, it too was a central part of the tradition and likely the most important ceremonial organization of the Dakotas. While some people believe that the Holy Dance is sacred and that the information regarding its subjects should be allowed to die with the last believers, Mniyo believed that these spiritual ceremonies played a key role in maintaining connections with the spirit world and were important aspects of shaping the identity of the Dakota people. In The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux, Daniel Beveridge brings together Mniyo and Goodvoice’s narratives and biographies, as well as songs of the Holy Dance and the pictographic notebooks of James Black (Jim Sapa), to make this volume indispensable for scholars and members of the Dakota community.

How long is The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux?

The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux by Samuel Mniyo is 328 pages long, and a total of 84,624 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 42 minutes to read The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux aloud.

What Reading Level is The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux?

The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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