Walks on the Ground: A Tribal History of the Ponca Nation

Named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Walks on the Ground is a record of Louis V. Headman's personal study of the Southern Ponca people spanning seven decades, beginning with the historic notation of the Ponca people's origins in the East. The last of the true Ponca speakers and storytellers entered Indian Territory in 1877, and most lived into the 1940s. In Ponca heritage, the history of individuals is told and passed along in songs of tribal members, and so Headman learned throug...