Welcome to the Oglala Nation

Welcome to the Oglala Nation
Title Welcome to the Oglala Nation PDF eBook
Author Akim D. Reinhardt
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 306
Release 2015-09-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0803268467

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Popular culture largely perceives the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890 as the end of Native American resistance in the West, and for many years historians viewed this event as the end of Indian history altogether. The Dawes Act of 1887 and the reservation system dramatically changed daily life and political dynamics, particularly for the Oglala Lakotas. As Akim D. Reinhardt demonstrates in this volume, however, the twentieth century continued to be politically dynamic. Even today, as life continues for the Oglalas on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, politics remain an integral component of the Lakota past and future. Reinhardt charts the political history of the Oglala Lakota people from the fifteenth century to the present with this edited collection of primary documents, a historical narrative, and a contemporary bibliographic essay. Throughout the twentieth century, residents on Pine Ridge and other reservations confronted, resisted, and adapted to the continuing effects of U.S. colonialism. During the modern reservation era, reservation councils, grassroots and national political movements, courtroom victories and losses, and cultural battles have shaped indigenous populations. Both a documentary reader and a Lakota history, Welcome to the Oglala Nation is an indispensable volume on Lakota politics.

Welcome to the Oglala Nation

Welcome to the Oglala Nation
Title Welcome to the Oglala Nation PDF eBook
Author Akim D. Reinhardt
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 307
Release 2015-09
Genre History
ISBN 0803284365

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Popular culture largely perceives the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890 as the end of Native American resistance in the West, and for many years historians viewed this event as the end of Indian history altogether. The Dawes Act of 1887 and the reservation system dramatically changed daily life and political dynamics, particularly for the Oglala Lakotas. As Akim D. Reinhardt demonstrates in this volume, however, the twentieth century continued to be politically dynamic. Even today, as life continues for the Oglalas on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, politics remain an integral component of the Lakota past and future. Reinhardt charts the political history of the Oglala Lakota people from the fifteenth century to the present with this edited collection of primary documents, a historical narrative, and a contemporary bibliographic essay. Throughout the twentieth century, residents on Pine Ridge and other reservations confronted, resisted, and adapted to the continuing effects of U.S. colonialism. During the modern reservation era, reservation councils, grassroots and national political movements, courtroom victories and losses, and cultural battles have shaped indigenous populations. Both a documentary reader and a Lakota history, Welcome to the Oglala Nation is an indispensable volume on Lakota politics.

On the Rez

On the Rez
Title On the Rez PDF eBook
Author Ian Frazier
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 332
Release 2001-05-04
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780312278595

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Raw account of modern day Oglala Sioux who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.

Proposed Wounded Knee Park and Memorial

Proposed Wounded Knee Park and Memorial
Title Proposed Wounded Knee Park and Memorial PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs
Publisher
Pages 96
Release 1991
Genre Government publications
ISBN

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My Grandfather's Altar

My Grandfather's Altar
Title My Grandfather's Altar PDF eBook
Author Richard Moves Camp
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 254
Release
Genre
ISBN 1496238702

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To Come to a Better Understanding

To Come to a Better Understanding
Title To Come to a Better Understanding PDF eBook
Author Sandra L. Garner
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 241
Release 2016
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 080328697X

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To Come to a Better Understanding analyzes the cultural encounters of the medicine men and clergy meetings held on Rosebud Reservation in St. Francis, South Dakota, from 1973 through 1978. Organized by Father Stolzman, a Catholic priest studying Lakota religious practice, the meetings fit the goal of the recently formed Medicine Men's Association to share its members' knowledge about Lakota thought and ritual. Both groups stated that the purpose of the historic theological discussions was "to come to a better understanding." Though the groups ended their formal discussions after eighty-four meetings, Sandra L. Garner shows how this cultural exchange reflects a rich Native intellectual tradition and articulates the multiple meanings of "understanding" that necessarily characterize intercultural encounters. Garner examines the exchanges of these two very different cultures, which share a history of inequitable power relationships, to explore questions of cultural ownership and activism. These meetings were another form of activism, a "quiet side" without the militancy of the American Indian Movement. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival analysis, this volume focuses on the medicine men participants--who served as translators, interpreters, and cultural mediators--to explore how modern political, social, and religious issues were negotiated from an indigenous perspective that valued experience as critical to understanding.

The Spirit and the Sky

The Spirit and the Sky
Title The Spirit and the Sky PDF eBook
Author Mark Hollabaugh
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 276
Release 2017-06
Genre Science
ISBN 1496201450

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The interest of nineteenth-century Lakotas in the Sun, the Moon, and the stars was an essential part of their never-ending quest to understand their world. The Spirit and the Sky presents a survey of the ethnoastronomy of the nineteenth-century Lakotas and relates Lakota astronomy to their cultural practices and beliefs. The center of Lakota belief is the incomprehensible, extraordinary, and sacred nature of the world in which they live. The earth beneath and the stars above constitute their holistic world. Mark Hollabaugh offers a detailed analysis of aspects of Lakota culture that have a bearing on Lakota astronomy, including telling time, their names for the stars and constellations as they appeared from the Great Plains, and the phenomena of meteor showers, eclipses, and the aurora borealis. Hollabaugh’s explanation of the cause of the aurora that occurred at the death of Black Elk in 1950 is a new contribution to ethnoastronomy.