1968-01-04: Letter to David Friend Aberle from Thomas Merton

W. H. "Ping" Ferry had asked David Aberle, an anthropologist, to write to Merton about the Sioux (Lakota) and about Sitting Bull. Though not an expert on the Lakota, Aberle offers some resources and advice. Merton responds that he is most interested in background on the Ghost Dance.

David F. Aberle was a professor of anthropology at University of British Columbia whose specialty was the study of the Navajos.

Thomas Merton See all items with this value

1968 January 4 See all items with this value

Thomas Merton Collection, Section A (Correspondence), "Aberle, David Friend", 1968/01/04.

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See also a letter from Aberle to Merton:

© The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University.

Thomas Merton Collection, Section A (Correspondence), "Aberle, David Friend".

Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968 See all items with this value

Aberle, David F. (David Friend), 1918-2004 See all items with this value