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Deals with the organization of camps and bands, kinship systems, beliefs, ceremonies, hunting, warfare, and methods of measuring time

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"Based on descriptions given by people who had experienced their traditional culture-most of it a way of life that had ceased or changed by 1900-Walker's papers are a unique and invaluable source for the anthropological study of the Sioux and for understanding traditional Plains Indian society generally."-Choice Choice "Classical material on the Lakota people and essential reading for anyone interested in a serious study of these people."-American Indian Culture and Research Journal American Indian Culture and Research Journal "DeMallie has done a sensitive, careful piece of work, and the documents as presented are both important sources and of interest to the general student of Indian history and ethno-history."-Western Historical Quarterly Western Historical Quarterly

Lakota Society

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    A Paperback / softback by James R. Walker, Raymond J. DeMallie

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/02/1992
      ISBN13: 9780803297371, 978-0803297371
      ISBN10: 0803297378
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      Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Deals with the organization of camps and bands, kinship systems, beliefs, ceremonies, hunting, warfare, and methods of measuring time

      Trade Review
      "Based on descriptions given by people who had experienced their traditional culture-most of it a way of life that had ceased or changed by 1900-Walker's papers are a unique and invaluable source for the anthropological study of the Sioux and for understanding traditional Plains Indian society generally."-Choice Choice "Classical material on the Lakota people and essential reading for anyone interested in a serious study of these people."-American Indian Culture and Research Journal American Indian Culture and Research Journal "DeMallie has done a sensitive, careful piece of work, and the documents as presented are both important sources and of interest to the general student of Indian history and ethno-history."-Western Historical Quarterly Western Historical Quarterly

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