O-Kee-Pa; a Religious Ceremony and Other Customs of the Mandans
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. Centenniel Edition. Octavo. 106p. index. bibliography. George Catlin had been accused of falsifying a government-sponored criticism of his account of the O-kee-pa four day religious ceremony performed by the Mandan Indians of the Upper Missouri. Their reenactment of tribal myths and painful self-torture were..... More
