"That's What They Used to Say": Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions drum Franklin Suhu

Franklin Suhu

By presenting accounts of divergent views among the Lakota people

While various books have investigated Native American reservations and homelands

" particularly the dual notions of interiority/soul/spirit and physicality/body and an extended notion of personhood

"That's What They Used to Say": Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions drum Franklin SuhuAs a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, Donald Fixico often heard "hvmakimata" "that's what they used to say" a phrase Mvskoke Creeks and Seminoles use to end stories. In his latest work, Fixico, who is Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Mvskoke Creek, and Seminole, invites readers into his own oral tradition to learn how storytelling, legends and prophecies, and oral histories and creation myths knit together to explain the Indian world. Interweaving the