Lakota Society

Lakota Society
ISBN-10
0803297378
ISBN-13
9780803297371
Category
Social Science
Pages
207
Language
English
Published
1992-02-01
Publisher
U of Nebraska Press
Author
James R. Walker

Description

As agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. Lakota Society presents the primary accounts of Walker's informants and his syntheses dealing with the organization of camps and bands, kinship systems, beliefs, ceremonies, hunting, warfare, and methods of measuring time.

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