George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition graphic novels WHEREAS is an ambitious

WHEREAS is an ambitious

she sweeps all before her and transcends mortality and time itself

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist

the Native and the non-Native

one which wakes in us the ability to understand so much about ourselves and the way history and time weigh on us in ways it's both understandable to stay asleep or to have to wake up from

George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition graphic novels WHEREAS is an ambitiousThe 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