
Published online:
21 August 2014
Published in print:
02 July 2014
Online ISBN:
9780199372393
Print ISBN:
9780199372362
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A Circle of Peace A Circle of Peace
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Rhythms of Ritual Renewal Rhythms of Ritual Renewal
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Spatial and Social Patterns Spatial and Social Patterns
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Opening and Closing the Circle Opening and Closing the Circle
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A Ritual Drama, Summer 1991 A Ritual Drama, Summer 1991
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Chapter
12 “We Are All Related”: The Limits of Inclusion at a Lakota Sun Dance
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Pages
184–194
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Published:July 2014
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Lincoln, Bruce, '“We Are All Related”: The Limits of Inclusion at a Lakota Sun Dance', Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification (New York , 2014; online edn, Oxford Academic, 21 Aug. 2014), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199372362.003.0013, accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
Although the rhetoric, ideology, and intention of a Lakota Sun Dance held in 1991 were emphatically inclusive, expanding on the ritual formula and invocation Mitakuye oyasin (“All my relations” or “We are all related”), conflict broke out along preexisting lines of cleavage: not so much the racial line dividing whites from Indians, but the political line separating those Lakota who wished to include whites from those who wished to exclude them. As this chapter emphasizes, ritual and rhetorical attempts to overcome such differences were able to achieve partial and temporary success, but the underlying stresses and strong sentiments of estrangement remain.
Keywords:
Lakota, Sun Dance, inclusion, exclusion, estrangement, sociopolitical cleavage, kinship metaphors
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