"Both beginning and experienced students in Lakota studies will [find] The Spirit and the Sky worthwhile reading. . . . It will be of special importance for those wishing to pursue further research in Lakota ethnoastronomy."—Harvey Markowitz, North Dakota History
"The Spirit and the Sky contributes another perspective on how the stars and universe have shaped the history of the Lakota people."—Richard Williams, Tribal College Journal
"This reviewer strongly recommends The Spirit and the Sky to readers interested in the Lakota or in ethnoastronomy, or both, for it provides an avenue into important spiritual aspects of Lakota life, their understanding of and relationship to the sky and its contents, and the field of ethnoastronomy."—Guy Gibbon, Nebraska History
“Through a comprehensive introduction to Lakota cultural astronomy, Mark Hollabaugh invites the reader to see the limitless skies over the Northern Plains much as did the Lakota of the nineteenth century. His incisive assessment of winter counts, ledger books, written records, celestial phenomena, and the Sun Dance is remarkably illuminating and heartily welcome.”—Harry Thompson, executive director of the Center for Western Studies at Augustana University
“Mark Hollabaugh treats us to a tutorial on basic observational astronomy while skillfully and thoroughly leading us into an understanding of the natural cycles of earth and sky, especially the recurring nature of celestial phenomena, as perceived through traditions of the great Lakota Nation of the North American Plains.”—Von Del Chamberlain, author of When Stars Came Down to Earth: Cosmology of the Skidi Pawnee Indians of North America
