Lakota Society

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Lakota Society

Author	: James R. Walker
File Size	: 54,7 Mb
Publisher	: U of Nebraska Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 February 1992
ISBN	: 0803297378
Pages	: 268 pages

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Lakota Society by James R. Walker Book PDF Summary

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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