Author

Contributions

  • DeMallie, Raymond J., 1946- - Contributor

Publication

1982 - University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Neb

Language

English

Word Count

51,750 words, Guess

Page Count

207 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • LCCE99.O3 W172 1982
  • LCCE99.O3.W172 1982
  • LCCE99.O3 W172

Description

Publisher 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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