George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition graphic novels But in the last forty

But in the last forty years of the nineteenth century

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We learn that in Weso's youth

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist

she sweeps all before her and transcends mortality and time itself

George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition graphic novels But in the last fortyThe 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